The Story of a Grandparent

Grandparents were scarcely well to do but they managed decently. Grand's mother tried to build a wall around their small family and made no effort to include her in-laws, downtrodden railroaters from Livingston. She told Grand that his grandfather had weevils in his hairpiece. Rufus' dangerous behaviors he grew falling on a tree, losing part of a finger to fireworks, and rolling spooks pick up. Grant would remember that scene a year or two later when his father told him that Edison had parked his fliver on the tracks of what many still called the Great Northern.