Mysterious series of events leads to relatives meeting
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — I recently met my second cousin, Anne Midgette, for the very first time. Our grandfathers Spencer and Ernest Midgett (who later changed his name to Ernst Midgette) were brothers. They both grew up in Kitty Hawk, N.C., and moved to New York City, seperately, as adults.Spencer, my grandfather, settled on Staten Island, where I always have lived, while Ernst made his home in Brooklyn, where Anne spent her childhood.
Spencer was much older than Ernst. Consequently, my mother, Annie Lee, and her sisters were much older than Anne’s father, Bill (the artist, Willard “Bill” Midgette), and his sisters ... and so on down the line. (Anne is about 16 years younger than I am.)
My mother was close to Uncle Ernst and his family when she was in her teens and early twenties. She frequently baby-sat for his children when they were small, but they slowly drifted apart as she became busy with raising her own family, especially after Ernst and his wife, Mary, moved further away, from Brooklyn to Long Island.
By the time Anne was born, there was little contact between the two families, aside from the perfunctory weekly phone calls between Granddaddy and Uncle Ernst. These continued until my grandfather died, in 1977, about six months before Anne’s father, Bill, died in 1978.
My mother attended Bill’s funeral, but after that she mostly heard about Ernst and his family through the family grapevine. Her last actual contact with Anne’s family was after Ernst died in 1988.
So, what prompted Anne and me to get together after nearly five decades of no contact? That’s where the story gets interesting.
About four years ago, my husband, Roy, who works in the information and technology department of a state psychiatric facility in Brooklyn, was preparing a large number of old computers for disposal.
In order to ensure patient privacy, it is necessary to wipe out the hard drives of all the old machines before getting rid of them. It is also imperative to check the CD drives for the inevitable forgotten discs.
He had amassed quite a stack of these forgotten CDs and was going through them to make sure there was nothing of value on them. It was then that he made a bizarre and still-unexplained discovery.
The CD he was exploring contained photos from someone’s family album.
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Spencer, my grandfather, settled on Staten Island, where I always have lived, while Ernst made his home in Brooklyn, where Anne spent her childhood. Spencer was much older than Ernst. Consequently, my mother, Annie Lee, and her sisters were much older
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This illustration happens to be my very favorite picture book illustration from all of 2008. (What? Such categories actually do exist in my head.) And I’m taking the liberty of pulling it from the 7-Imp archives to re-post here. My visitors this morning mention this picture book below, and so I take every chance I can get to share Robert Andrew Parker’s art.
Okay, wait. While I’m at it, let me re-post this, too, from a book also mentioned below:
, also published by Schwartz & Wade Books in 2009.
Back to my visitors: I’m doing something different and altogether new for me here at 7-Imp this morning, the sort of thing that is more up Steven Withrow’s alley, but there’s a first time for everything, yes? I’m having a brief chat today with Anne Schwartz and Lee Wade, who five years ago created the Schwartz & Wade imprint at Random House. Evidently, they’re celebrating this anniversary with a blog tour of sorts. I was asked if I wanted to be involved, and given the fact that I’ve followed their picture books with interest over the past five years, I thought it’d be neat to take the opportunity to ask them their thoughts on picture books today and what’s next for the imprint. If I didn’t have my own writing deadline right now, I would have asked them more than just four whoppin’ questions, but I’m glad we were able to do this at all.
The best part—bonus!—is that they share some picture book art below, and you all know what an illustration junkie I am. I know many of you 7-Imp readers out there are, too, so I’m happy to share.
As a brief bit of background here, Anne and Lee worked together at Simon & Schuster for just under ten years before working at Random House. During their careers, they have had a particular focus on picture books, so I’m happy to have them visiting today. Let’s get right to it…
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Jules : What did the two of you think about the New York Times
Schwartz and Wade : Well, it goes without saying that we love picture books, and the kids, teachers, and librarians we know love them, too. We staunchly believe that picture books play a crucial role in the development of a child and that kids should read books that are appropriate for their age.
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