Saturday, September 4, 2010

Duxbury Grammie's House


My mother left my father in Norfolk, Va. where he was stationed in the US Navy during WWII. She went back home to her mother's because she was pregnant with me and wanted to be at home when she had me. I assume my father agreed with her decision. My father was a nautical engineer at the Navy Ship yard. He wanted to be in the action in Japan but he got as far as San Francisco and the War was over.
I was born in a September hurricane at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, Ma. in 1944. My father had a hard time hitch hiking from Virginiathrough the windy rains of the storm but he made it. Not soon enough for my mother. I was to go home to Grammie's house on Tremont St at Island Creek in Duxbury, Ma.. My crib and room was prepared by my two grandmothers Ella and Cindy.
Later the same bassinet held my daughter 39years later and 5000 miles away.
Mom and dad bought their own house further north on Tremont Street with the four thousand dollar(down payment) inheritance my mother received from her grandpa John, a bog man in Plymouth.
My paternal grandfather, Walter, wasn't so happy about their choice of house as he had chosen a house on Cove Street for them to buy. He had a strong emotional hold on my father who was a devoted son and worked as the head mechanic at Duxbury Garage until his premature death at age 59yrs.

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