The photo suggests a peaceful day in the country, but the accompanying story relates anything but. This is Hix Bridge, in Westport, MA, where Joseph Grinnell, a 16 year-old apprentice, encountered three enslaved fugitives attempting to reach a Quaker safe house in 1790s New Bedford. The grim and shocking account was excerpted in the […]
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Know Thyself: Through Photos
// Elizabeth Marcus // All, Decoding Our Parents, Essays
It is generally held that the road to mastering internal conflict winds through our past and back to the conflict’s source. As children, we do our best to make sense of what feels wrong, with whatever limited understanding we have at that moment. And so we often come to false conclusions–most commonly that we were […]
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Infant Care: Us vs. Them
// Elizabeth Marcus // All, Essays, Reverse Parenting
When my daughter Zoe came to visit with 5 month-old Zach, my first grandchild, we looked together through the photo album I’d made of her first year. In it we found a picture of me feeding her in the very same rocker in which she liked to sit feeding her baby. Nothing had changed. And […]