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Norm vists Conn.
By Norm Seeley | October 29, 2007
That’s Marjorie Wiggin Prescott and Norman Austin Seeley Jr.
My Grandmother on my father’s side. There is a long story connected with that, and I don’t have the time, or space to let you hear it.
This picture, like so many that I have, has no date, no names, doesn’t say where it was or what was going on.
I can fill in some details, it was at her estate, that’s right, in Greenwich, Conn, and, it was years and years ago.
We visited her house many times while I was a kid, always during the summer, I guess cause we were out of school and I remember how much fun it was to stay up on the third floor of her house. The room had a door that blended into the wall, when it was shut, you have to look closely to find it. There was no door knob, that I remember.
We would have tea each afternoon,.
That didn’t happen in Colorado.
As a kid, my mother made sure that we had respect for Grandma, it wasn’t until I went back to visit my second wife to be in New Jersey and we went to Conn for Grandma to meet her, that she got to know the real me.
As I introduced my second wife to be, Grandma ask if I had asked the permission to remarried of my first wife.
Without batting an eye. ” Why the HELL would I do that?”
She changed the subject.
After that, she would call me every once in awhile and we would talk for twenty, thirty minutes each time. The first time in my entire life she had called to talk to me. It went on for several years, until she died.
I always enjoyed those phone calls. She was a very interesting woman. Sorry that I didn’t act like myself as a kid, maybe the conversations would have started earlier.
Topics: Family, Me | 2 Comments »
March 28th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Recently found your blog while I was seeking information on my great grandmother Marjorie Wiggin Prescott. My grandmother and grandfather were John and Elizabeth (Babbie) Barhydt and my mother was Marjorie Barhydt Allen.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
My mother, who passed away two years ago, talked about Babbie all the time. I used to love to listen to my Mom tell stories about living back East. I only knew Denver, Colorado as our family moved there when I was two.