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Household Inventory

Household Inventory Connie Jordan Green Appalachian Heritage, Volume 35, Number 4, Fall 2007, p. 77 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0056 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432484/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:30 GMT from JHU Libraries HOUSEHOLD INVENTORY Connie Jordan Green The secretary that belonged to my grandmother— golden oak I've rubbed over the years— where she kept the dairy-farm books, wrote occasional letters to her two sons who left the farm. The secretary my dad chose after her death and that my mother kept as the last real furniture to go with her into the retirement home and that I chose when Mother went into the nursing home— desk surface split along the joint of two large boards—our friend the wood carver reglued, reattached—cubby holes now filled with seed catalogs, public television newsletters, drawers of bank statements, my father's gardening journal, deed to my parents' farm, the last canceled checks from the nursing home. Now my children eye the household items, rearrange in their minds the rooms of their own houses—where to put the secretary and who will take it— or the corner cupboard, oak side table from my husband's grandparents, cedar http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Household Inventory

Green, Connie Jordan.
Appalachian Review , Volume 35 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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Connie Jordan Green Appalachian Heritage, Volume 35, Number 4, Fall 2007, p. 77 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0056 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432484/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:30 GMT from JHU Libraries HOUSEHOLD INVENTORY Connie Jordan Green The secretary that belonged to my grandmother— golden oak I've rubbed over the years— where she kept the dairy-farm books, wrote occasional letters to her two sons who left the farm. The secretary my dad chose after her death and that my mother kept as the last real furniture to go with her into the retirement home and that I chose when Mother went into the nursing home— desk surface split along the joint of two large boards—our friend the wood carver reglued, reattached—cubby holes now filled with seed catalogs, public television newsletters, drawers of bank statements, my father's gardening journal, deed to my parents' farm, the last canceled checks from the nursing home. Now my children eye the household items, rearrange in their minds the rooms of their own houses—where to put the secretary and who will take it— or the corner cupboard, oak side table from my husband's grandparents, cedar

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