Cosigning the Past
| dc.contributor.author | Delury, Jane | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-11T15:37:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-10-11T15:37:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-02-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the 1880s, my great-grandmother packed a steamer trunk and left her Alsatian village for the port of Le Havre, France. Anna had a glass eye — the result of a snowball fight when she was a girl — little knowledge of English, and the promise of work in San Francisco. She docked in New York and, having eaten her first orange, boarded a train to the West Coast. There, she met my great-grandfather, Albert, an immigrant from Germany. They opened a bakery that collapsed during the earthquake of 1906. My great-grandparents and their children survived that catastrophe, but not long after, their seven-year old son was run over by a carriage while playing in the street. A black wreath hung on their door for a decade. By the time I was a child, Anna and Albert had been reduced to these anecdotes, passed on by my father, and, more concretely, to their two steamer trunks. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/consigning-the-past/ | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 2 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | essays | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/M2Z02Z973 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Delury, J. (2012). Cosigning the Past. Baltimore Fishbowl, 1-2. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/7299 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Baltimore Fishbowl | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | University of Baltimore | |
| dc.subject | creative writing | en_US |
| dc.subject | short stories | en_US |
| dc.subject | traveling | en_US |
| dc.subject | narrative | en_US |
| dc.title | Cosigning the Past | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |