a sense of face

emil, ca 1902

Sometimes, I speculate about the nature of my great-grandparents’ marriage. My great-grandfather Emil was a young widower with a 3-year old child when he married Helene 10 months after the tuberculosis death of his first wife, Rosalia. Helene was a somewhat of a spinster by 1908′s norms: at 34, this was her first marriage.  The [...]