Note to self: spend more time with the old relatives.

Too many questions about the family become permanent mysteries when the generations change. My great-aunt, Sr. Louise Burroughs, died earlier this week. She and I had an e-mail correspondence going for over a year and she was always intersting to hear from. Aunt Lou was not a doddering old lady with photos of grandchildren; she dissected current events, described the beauty of snow on shubbery, and went to a Japanese restaurant after we’d discussed Japanese food.

She may have been the only person who could identify a sculpture that her father posed for in the late 19th century—it was described to me as a Peter Pan sculpture installed in a park in Chicago—and now that Aunt Lou isn’t here to give me confirmation, I’ll continue the research to try to find it but I’ll never be completely sure. Posted by kuri at April 27, 2001 09:54 AM