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Bruce E Whitacre
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The Elk in the Glade
Literature & Fiction
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Jennie's earliest memory
As described later, Jennie enjoyed sharing her life story, and I was always eager to listen. The death of her mother and the break up of her family while her father tried to adapt was a lifelong issue for her. It led to the separation from her dear brother, Rollie, and ultimately triggered their move from Cleveland to Nebraska in the 1880's. Jennie's girlhood in a sod house coincides with the years Willa Cather was growing up a little more than 100 miles further east, in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Her return visits to Cleveland later on set the stage for her interest in painting.
Book Excerpt
The Elk in the Glade
1882
The journey began with a white crib,
a cage, a case, a conveyance,
one April night in Cleveland when
the uncles carried the orphan Jennie in her crib
down the street to the aunt
waiting in a shawl at the door.
“Up to the left. It’s cold. What can I do?”
The brown-haired girl with glowing eyes, barely three,
wrapped her fat knuckles around the white dowels.
She would cling to those dowels, her only home,
peering out at the unfamiliar family,
her gaze sometimes peculiar with
her thoughts even then as she waited
for her father, Horace, to remarry.
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