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Wednesday, April 14, 2004 |
Highly recommended
A new blog. It's called Dance Dance Dance, and you'll have to ask the proprietor why that is. If you note a family resemblance, you're ultrabright and perceptive.
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April 14 ...
Another significant family date: Anne O'Malley Hogan, our grandmother,
known to some as "Mighty Anne" (though I guess you'd have to see her
coming at you with a broom or other improvised implement of destruction
to really understand why) would be 106 today. But as I said to some
coworkers, she missed the party by 24 years.
She was a college-educated woman from a working-class
South Side Irish family (sorry for the redundancy there) who raised a
pretty amazing crop of kids first in the middle of the Depression (and
whatever other depression was going on) and later after a series of
tragedies that might have been expected to crush her: the drowning of
one of her six kids (and three other family members) and the death of
her husband when the oldest of the five surviving children was 14. I think the
way she brought them through it -- not unscathed, to be sure, but
with a sense they could not only survive but thrive -- was what got her
the name Mighty Anne.
I don't have a digital copy of any of her pictures. If I did, I'd post it.
11:51:15 PM
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