August 26, 2024 When I was a kid, my family often spent a week or two of summer vacation visiting my grandmother in Springfield, Illinois. She lived in the middle house in the photo below, next to her sister Adelia's place, the one with white columns and trim. Next door to Aunt Del on the… Continue reading The ghosts of August
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I wish I could take my mother to see the new movie about Lincoln. I’ll never forget the night when we watched the segment of Ken Burns’ “Civil War” that included the Gettysburg Address, and the version Sam Waterston read was somehow different than...