The Long Remembering
John D. SpaldingEssays on ancestry, history, memory, and what we inherit—seen and unseen.
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The Girl Who Didn’t Know Her Birthday
Crystal Louise Spalding, 1940s.
When I spoke with my cousin Melinda in June 2024, it had been almost fifty years since we’d seen each other. The last time was at her older brother’s wedding in the spring of 1975, when she was sixteen and I...
And Never the Twain Shall Meet
Mark Twain looking out a window, 1903. Photograph by Thomas E. Marr. Library of Congress.
A Note Before the Essay
I wrote this piece in 1997, when I was thirty-two. Most of what I wrote then, even my humor, was more restrained than this....
Where They Were Laid
Green Hill Cemetery, Bedford, Indiana.
It was early morning in April 2024 when I first approached the monument. The cemetery office had not yet opened, and I hadn’t arranged to meet anyone. The air was cool, the morning light pale.
I had...
Among the Last People
We went to the museum without a plan. My son Evan and I had an evening concert in New Haven and a few hours to fill. The Yale University Art Gallery is a place I’ve returned to with my sons over the years, one of those places that becomes p...
The Boy in the Flat Cap
From left: Gertie, Blanche, Agnes, Savilla, and Jack, Bedford, Indiana, c. 1901.
This is an old family photograph. It is sepia, slightly formal in the way that people became formal when a camera appeared—five figures arranged in front of a...
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