by Sharon Feder
sfeder.com
In the late 1800’s, my great-grandparents, Harry and Mary Aarons, came to Denver from New York city. What motivated them to leave their community back East for a future in young Denver is unknowable… just as their destiny would have been in that tumultuous time.
I tried very hard to learn they had traveled part way by “prairie schooner”, but the truth has them arriving in Denver by train with their baby girl. They would breed many baby girls, and a few sons. Some would survive, others died – in childbirth, infancy, young adulthood.
Most of the truth about these people, I will never know. I can imagine, though, their lives and love in the brand new Twentieth Century, as I imagine my own future in the brand new Twenty-First Century.
Train tracks stretch from Denver to New York, from 1909 to 2009. Life lines. Mysteries. Possibilities.
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Paintings from the River North series by Sharon Feder. See more work of Sharon’s at her website, sfeder.com.