During a Family Livestream, My Niece Snapped the Bracelet Off My Wrist

beside a small note on ivory paper, the ink brown with age, the signature clear.

To Eleanor, for the music that saved me. H.V. 1948.

This student, I wrote, has demonstrated a flagrant disregard for the very history this institution exists to protect. By publicly destroying a personal artifact belonging to Eleanor Vance, a key figure in the preservation continue reading …