A Footprint of Memories
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It is impossible for me to recall the early days of my life but I do know from my family how I got to Shepherd Road and into the arms of my loving grandparents, James (Jim for short) and Ida Fanny Eggert Fox. The decision to bring me there was made before I was born. Just ten days earlier my father, knowing the time for my birth was imminent, took my mother to an aunt’s house in Rochester to be near a hospital. He reassured her he’d be back in an hour…. She never saw him again. To this day I have never seen my father.
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In my book I will share the sorrows endured from being separated from my mother and never meeting my father as well as the joys of living with grandparents and aunts and uncles in a rural farm life. With no indoor plumbing an outhouse in winter was a challenge especially when the Sears Catalog was all we had for toilet paper…carrying water from the pump outside for all of our needs was not an easy but necessary task. A galvanized tub on the kitchen floor is where I took my bath… The butchers came and butchered our pigs, grandma churned her own butter and baked fresh bread everyday. We’ll venture walking on the stone walls and hiding in the corn fields….we’ll ride the old buggy down the hills and pretend we’re Tarzan swinging on the stalky vines in the woods. Mud pies for the neighbor and bouquets of dandelions for grandma are some of the treasures we’ll share. We lived during World War II. Sirens and blackouts were frightening and conserving and rationing were a way of life.
About the Author
I live near the shores of beautiful Lake Ontario in Upstate New York…I have traveled the United States from Maine to California by car. My husband of 71 years and I have traveled to Paris and Antarctica. I enjoy blue grass music, flowers and bird watching when I can.