generations

Me, Leah, and Leah's mom went over to hang out with Leah's grandmother: pictured here are three generations. We got a glass cake plate that was once Leah's great-great-grandmother's and is linked to the family of the doctor that treated John Wilkes Booth's leg after he jumped from the balcony after shooting Lincoln. He treated Booth, not as a co-conspirator, but as a doctor adhering to the Hippocratic oath to treat all who are injured. I always enjoy going over to hang out with Leah's grandmother, hearing stories and being immersed in her little assisted care apartment unit, stuffed as it is with quilting patches and sewing things and bears and sugar bowls and old photos.