I’m cleaning the dining room chairs in advance of the new table that is coming in December. What seemed a chore yesterday, today became a meditation on old family things, the patina of age, and my mother-in-law. The chairs have been at our house for 20 years, since Mo died. As the eldest child, R […]
1945. Salamanca, New York. Fanny Black Hull opens first one and then another book shop on Main Street (19 and 61) in Salamanca. Piatt Hull is in France in WWII. Roger Hull is a tot. 2014. Salem, Oregon. Roger Hull sorts and files the papers and photos of his parents and grandparents in order to […]
Last winter Portland artist Marie Watt put out a call to men of her acquaintance to send her pictures of their mothers, or of a woman they thought needed to be remembered, for a piece she was working on. Roger forwarded a photo of his mother holding him in a long ago train station. Saturday […]
On The Way 