Cousins: The Booth Connection

Memory Bank: A Dedication

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The Booth Cousins Memory Bank is especially dedicated to Mary Orebaugh Booth

Growing up on the ranch out by the river, we (the House and Kidd kids, who had the great good fortune of living with Mary and Tussie Davidson) listened to uncounted memories (if only we could recall them now) of the Booth family from the woman known to the cousins as Aunt Mary. She loved her family so, and she missed them all terribly. As a young woman, i think that moving to the West was not a thing she did lightly, knowing how far she would be from her family. I think of Grandma when i visit the Ellis Island Immigration Museum and read of all the things the new Americans left behind them. When Emily and i trekked across the country with a truck full of my own worldly possessions, stopping along the way to meet many of the cousins and aunties and uncles, it was a bit like entering a childhood fairy storybook. Here, alive and in person, were some of the men and women that Grandma carried with her to Idaho, in her memory, and they are just as funny and dignified and Booth as they were in her stories.

So, with gratitude, i dedicate this page to the memory of my grandmother's memories.