A special feature coming in our July/August magazine.
my grandma memory
Above right: My Grandma, Caroline Myers
enjoy “my” grandma memory Aunt Carrie…that was most of my father’s brother and daughter-in-laws called my Grandmother Caroline Myers. She was born in rural New York though her parents came from Europe. I had a bachelor uncle who saved my grandfather’s leather suitcase containing my grandmother’s rosary, several religious medals, a Last Rites wooden Crucifix Cross packed with what was called a Sick Call Set, a few holy cards marking passages in her red, then faded to a rosy pink velvet missal printed in German. The same uncle saved her china for me…made in Austria. When she was alive and even after she developed cancer, it was totally understood by all that Sunday afternoons were reserved for visiting her. Even at three, I could remember being lifted up to her bedridden arms for a smooch for “her baby.” AND you did not smoke in front of Gramma…daughters-in-law had to smoke outside the house! During WWII my father, mother and I lived with my grandmother. My grandfather, gone when my dad was only two, built the big saltbox house on a knoll facing the Genessee River. It still stands today. I have b/w photos of threshing teams working the farm’s fields and vividly recall my mother with all the other women in the family making meals for the traveling men. The kitchen was packed with lunch and those wonderful pies…there was a patch of rhubarb on the bank at the front of the homeplace and there were some super delicious rhubarb pies made in that kitchen.
P.S. We’ve received quite a few entries already! Some a paragraph or two, some a page or two. Some with photos and some without. Remember, it’s not a contest, and there’s no right or wrong, It’s simply sharing and enjoying a special memory honoring your grandma.
We’d welcome your grandma memory! We’ll publish your memories in our July-August magazine. We’d need your memories by May 1, 2021. We’d welcome a copy of a photograph of your grandma, together with you would be great, but no photo is required! email to: barabara@yadkinvalleymagazine.com Mail to: Barbara Norman Yadkin Valley Magazine 413 Cherry Street, East Bend, NC 27018
As a thank you, every memory submitted will receive a Keepsake, Commemorative “Grandma’s Kitchen” Pot Holder celebrating this special issue of Yadkin Valley Magazine. March/April 2021
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