Family Legacy
The brilliant blue skies and misty violet High Peaks framed the backdrop of North Elba cemetery in Lake Placid last summer—a lovely and fitting scene for a special memorial. A group had already assembled at the grave site and, for the first time ever, I greeted people who share my bloodline but I had never met. Lake Placid, Elizabethtown, Massena, Cornwall, Florida and South Carolina—they had come from all over the country to say goodbye to a woman they had known their whole lives but I had only met 15 years prior.
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