Ten For Today: Grandfather

Dear Mr. Time, Daryl Hall & John Oates, John Prine, Homer Banks, Limousine, The New Birth, Olomana, Thunderstorm, Monie Love, Fruit Bats

I didn’t know my grandfather well, though it wasn’t because I didn’t spend time with him. It was because he was pretty unknowable. He was born this day in 1902 in Meteghan, Nova Scotia, an Acadian coastal fishing village. I don’t know why he moved to Boston, but assume it was for a job at the Ford plant in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he worked unti…