Honoring Our Roots

At our grandparents’ grave – my sister, my brother and I

Summer is the time of family reunions. Incidentally, just before my hip surgery, we had a family reunion of sorts on my mother’s side on the occasion of my beloved uncle’s sudden death. Of course the intent wasn’t a family reunion, but funerals do bring people together. On the day after the memorial service, following a cousin’s directions, my siblings and I went in search of our maternal grandparents former property in Lapeer, Michigan...