Partial to Home: A bouquet on Seventh Street
Partial to Home: A bouquet on Seventh Street Birney Imes For years I’ve admired the yard of Glenda and Raymond Gross. Last week, seeing them at work, I stopped to admire their work up close and visit. I first met Raymond years ago at the YMCA when we both played handball. Raymond Gross grew up in Harlan County, Kentucky, the son of a coal miner and a mother who tended the needs of her nine children, which included milking the family cow. As did most kids growing up in the mid-century rural South, Raymond spent much of his childhood immersed in nature. “We did what country boys did,” he ...
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