Most people alive today wouldn't know how much you cared for your life and memories of Thomas ,WV.It seems your family liked it a lot too as Aunt Mary,Aunt Ginny and your Uncle Tom have visited before.Your birthplace, Uniontown,didn't seem to hold you the same way.I remember the week you Evan and I went to stay a few days in Canaan ,Diane staying behind a few days at work.You had described the town of Thomas so well to me that it was like I had been there before though it was my first time.
The trees so thick and close to town,the railroad tracks running parallel to the main Street.The row of buildings that made up the town opening to the tracks.
When,blind with macular degeneration,you described in detail the building you lived in with your family and its location on the street,I found it and parked my car at the curb.
You stayed in the car while 7 yr old Evan and I walked between the narrow space between your building and the one next to it,to the back porch and pushed open the door to enter where you lived 50 years earlier.
Ev was afraid we'd get arrested for B&E.We walked down a long wide hallway with big rooms on either side to the front kitchen.There a 1940 calendar hung on the wall.
The apartment had obviously been occupied for a time but was under what appeared to be a stalled renovation.It had a 1940s feel to it.Wood GCMurphy-like floors,big doors to each bedroom.I don't recall a living roo.
We only stayed 5minutes but it really was like a time machine inside that big apartment.
I remember you telling me how you and a school age Ginny stayed there after your parents went to live in Uniontown bc Situ needed to be near doctors.
How you went to the hotel for breakfast each morning before walking Ginny to school and then opening Gidu's,left in your care.
I wish to remember more but can't today.But I remember that day and how close I felt to you there.I miss that.
I wish I could believe Evan was with you now.Love you ,Mom.
