Edward and the woodpile

 The little boy sitting on the woodpile has been replaced by Edward as an early teenager. He spent time at his grandfather's house in Woodbury chopping wood for their wood stove. He is proud of the stack that he has produced. Edward was a hard worker. Sometimes I think he worked too hard as a child but he never complained. He enjoyed his life with his mother and dreamed of going to university as a child. He was a good student in school and worked hard to get good grades.

 

 Like other children orphaned at this time, a lot of mothers raised their children on their own. I remember when he told me that his father had died when he was two. It was a sadness for him that he could not remember him at all.