500 miles apart at birth. 175 miles apart when they raised children. Ida Smith Reynolds and Lorena Susan Dickens were 6th cousins, once removed. Each was my grandmother. Ida was my Grandmother Kyzer, my maternal grandmother. She was born and raised in Dooly County, Georgia. A school teacher, she met my Grandaddy through teaching and …
Month: March 2018
Pen Pals….1940’s social media
A small handful of letters written by two Columbian pen pals, Jose and German, to my mother in 1945, say a lot about how our world has changed. The letters are fairly benign. The boys speak of their age and physical description. Mentions of the family farms that produce coffee. Classes they were taking and …
