My Daughter Tried to Keep Me Out of the Lake House I Built, But When She Arrived for the Fourth of July, I Had Already Made Room

sound like in person before I die.”

Rosalyn James, sixty-six, former elementary school principal, widow, lived alone in a house too big for one person and sang in the choir every Sunday like it was the only time all week she was permitted to take up full volume.

Pearl Whitaker, seventy-one. Buried two husbands and one son. Wore sensible shoes and bright continue reading …