Loose Ends: Oh, the stories they tell

The local historical society’s fundraiser may have shed a little light on family mysteries for local residents. It did for me. My familiarity with the old doll could not be questioned, but my knowledge of where it originated was spotty. My mother’s and grandmother’s stories about the doll did not mesh.
I had been introduced to my great-grandmother’s doll more than 50 years earlier. My mother had moved my four siblings and me about an…