Well, Grandma is still off having her baby!!!  Our very first guest blog comes from one of my all time most favoritst people in the world, our very very own Marshall Brewer, a  beautiful California boy who lives here in Brattleboro.  Welcome Marshall, and thank you for your post!!! Ruth Brownell Lewis was born the […]

What Was Grandma Maggie Doing On February 2, 1937 on Saint Mark’s Place in Manhattan????? She was having her baby!!!  Happy happy day!!! Grandma finally had her baby.  On this day, February 2 in 1937, Timothy Duffield was born. Did you know, then, Grandma who you had in your arms?  My uncle Tee! Curly-haired brown-eyed […]

What Was My Grandma Maggie Doing On Saint Mark’s Place, February 1, 1937 Rained all day yesterday; we read— I in Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley, powerful book, full of hate and very interesting.  To *Luchow’s for knackwurst. M. beer and I wine, and home and the Talleys in for bridge, and we had […]

What Has My Grandma, Maggie, Been  Doing these Last Few Days???? January 29th, 1937 This mythical date which we have bandied about for so long came and went and nothing happened. Took a walk, bought case of 88cent wine, enjoyed the sunshine and mild crispness of 39-degree day, home and read In Sweden: the Middle […]

What Has Suzanne Been Doing Lo These Many Days????? January 30th, 2010, Brattelboro, Vermont Today am catching you up on one, two of my grandma’s long lost days because yours truly has been lolling around in bed with Lyme Disease, feeling very much like I got in a fist fight with a Sumo wrestler. And […]