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...Back in Chelmsford, Dad expresses the obvious opinion that he's too old for all this, and I offer that I am, too. I tell him I've got a headache and am going for a jog to clear it. My route when visiting home is a seven-mile loop through West Chelmsford, past the house where I lived from birth to age seven, then through Nabnasset and back on Dunstable Road to Berkeley Drive. As I jog I think a lot of things, most of them lighter than dark. She'll never go to another ballgame. She'll never...
...jog along Main Street, an old road dating to Colonial times where our former house still sits, painted grey now, the house that Dad and Mom bought for twelve grand after the War. As I pass by it I think, not for the first time, how that used to be an impossible Wiffle ball shot from home plate to the back of the house. I jog and count: It's actually only a dozen adult strides. I wasn't much older than Caroline is now when hitting that wall was called a homer...
...Canadian gym on base. "Unite and integrate, that's my order to you," he said. "Unite with each other, and integrate with the other contingents." Given their mandate that's difficult while on duty, but off hours reveal a different story. At the end of each day, Japanese soldiers jog with Canadians through the apple orchard outside the base, in the shadow of the balloon-shaped radar antennae of the Israeli listening station on Mount Avital. They play baseball with the Canadians and soccer with the Poles. Canadian soldiers eschew the beef lasagne of their own cooks and chow down...
Most sketch artists ask witnesses to examine drawings or photographs meant to jog their memories. But that process can muddy fragile recollections. "Human memories are very malleable, especially at the height of emotion," she says. "Ask, 'Did he have a moustache?' Well, he does now, because you're implanting that image." Her interviews are long chats about other topics, with only occasional questions related to the pad she holds just out of sight. "The assumption is that this work is about art," says Boylan, "but it's about the complexity of memory...
Most sketch artists ask witnesses to examine drawings or photographs meant to jog their memories. But that process can muddy fragile recollections. "Human memories are very malleable, especially at the height of emotion," she says. "Ask, 'Did he have a moustache?' Well, he does now, because you're implanting that image." Her interviews are long chats about other topics, with only occasional questions related to the pad she holds just out of sight. "The assumption is that this work is about art," says Boylan, "but it's about the complexity of memory...