Lost and Found: A Family Portrait
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“Over the hill and through the woods to Grandmother’s house we go…”
That was the first thing I thought when I picked this picture up.
Nigel, Jerome, and Akwon loved their grandmother, and there was no question that she loved them. Visiting “Gram” was always an event to be looked forward to – they would crowd around her chair while Jeopardy blared in the background… “I love that Alex Trebec,” grandma would coo. There were always cookies – the good kind with chocolate and nuts – well, the nuts weren’t so great, but the chocolate was. Grandma loved Alex Trebec, but Grandma really loved her sweets. The thing that a child’s mind rarely registered though was that with each passing visit Grandma moved less and less… sometimes never so much as rising from her chair all weekend long. Akwon would wonder at night, “how does Gram go to the bathroom?”
Found on Vanderbilt St. in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene area, as the sun waned and the Spring had begun to sprung.