Grandma Learns a New Word

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How innocent they all were back in the 1920s!

Grandpa and the Hooker

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This story is one I'd never heard before!

Fever

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I wonder if my kids know this story about their grandmother.

Daddy Dearest

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My father, who died in 1987, was not the best person in the world. During her convalescence, my mother (who divorced him long before he died) talked with one of my cousins about what he was like at the time of his death. It's a good thing the TV stations didn't get wind of it, or we would have made the news.

Searching for Josiah

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My mother, my cousin and I went on a search for the schoolhouse where my great-grandfather taught. We visited the tiny "museum" in Inverness (California), the compound where my grandparents and several of my aunts lived, and my mother reminisces.

Nannie and the Piano

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My mother talks about my grandmother and why she never played the piano.

Nannie and the Earthquake

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My father's mother was a child when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire struck. Here, my mother talks a little bit about how it had been for my grandmother as a child.