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00:00:28,237 --> 00:00:31,Grandpa was born in the plains.

00:00:31,907 --> 00:00:35,It was absolutely flat, all around,
for hundreds of miles.

00:00:36,746 --> 00:00:39,He thought the whole world
was like that.

00:00:39,498 --> 00:00:42,Even the house
was dug out of the ground.

00:00:43,127 --> 00:00:46,Then, one momentous day,
he found out about mountains.

00:00:48,632 --> 00:00:51,He must have found
a picture in a book.

00:00:52,136 --> 00:00:53,He was amazed.

00:00:53,554 --> 00:00:55,It became an obsession.

00:00:55,347 --> 00:00:57,He drew and painted mountains
endlessly.

00:00:58,267 --> 00:01:01,Mount Fujiyama,
the Alps, the Rockies.

00:01:01,854 --> 00:01:04,He painted mountains all his life.

00:01:07,985 --> 00:01:11,Before we were even born, he was
lying at the bottom of Finger-bone Lake.

00:01:12,031 --> 00:01:14,In the wreckage of a train.

00:01:14,617 --> 00:01:16,There were lots of mountains there.

00:01:21,791 --> 00:01:24,That's the way
the family story went.

00:01:25,127 --> 00:01:26,It was a good enough story,

00:01:26,837 --> 00:01:29,but there were other things
we wanted to know.

00:01:31,717 --> 00:01:34,For instance,
where was our father?

00:01:34,095 --> 00:01:36,Nobody even mentioned him.

00:01:46,065 --> 00:01:48,Where are the seagulls, Lucille?

00:01:48,818 --> 00:01:50,I don't know.

00:01:50,778 --> 00:01:53,Let me put the bread
right down here.

00:01:55,658 --> 00:01:56,Hey!

00:01:57,159 --> 00:01:58,Hi, Charlie!

00:02:00,746 --> 00:02:02,You girls get inside.

00:02:03,165 --> 00:02:04,Get inside, now.

00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,Hey.

00:02:07,086 --> 00:02:09,If you get inside
I'll bring you some custard.

00:02:09,421 --> 00:02:10,Okay, Bernice.

00:02:11,966 --> 00:02:12,Hey.

00:02:23,060 --> 00:02:24,Guess what.

00:02:24,478 --> 00:02:26,We're going to see Grandma.

00:02:27,106 --> 00:02:28,In Bernice's car.

00:02:51,630 --> 00:02:53,Didn't know I could drive,
did you?

00:02:54,508 --> 00:02:55,No.

00:03:17,031 --> 00:03:18,You shouldn't be smoking, ma'**.

00:03:24,371 --> 00:03:25,Nice kids.

00:03:27,208 --> 00:03:28,Sometimes they are.

00:03:30,211 --> 00:03:34,♪ Sometimes I live in the town

00:03:34,590 --> 00:03:39,♪ Sometimes I take a great notion

00:03:39,303 --> 00:03:43,♪ to jump in the river and drown ♪

00:03:43,182 --> 00:03:44,Eleven!

00:03:50,564 --> 00:03:51,What are you counting?

00:03:52,024 --> 00:03:54,- Horses.
- And cemeteries.

00:05:23,824 --> 00:05:24,Come on, girls.

00:05:28,704 --> 00:05:30,Come on. This way.

00:05:38,756 --> 00:05:42,Years later, Lucille and I still
talked about the trip to Grandma's

00:05:43,552 --> 00:05:46,Lucille would remember one thing,
and I another,

00:05:46,096 --> 00:05:48,until we'd pieced together
the whole journey.

00:05:48,849 --> 00:05:52,We tried so hard that we ended up
not knowing what we really remembered

00:05:52,603 --> 00:05:54,from what we had just imagined.

00:05:54,563 --> 00:05:57,And we often fought
over the details.

00:06:00,444 --> 00:06:01,Grandma's at church,

00:06:01,695 --> 00:06:03,but you're gonna wait here
and give her a nice surprise.

00:06:04,031 --> 00:06:05,She'll be home in a little while,
okay?

00:06:05,949 --> 00:06:07,Hm-hmm.
Where are you going?

00:06:07,910 --> 00:06:09,I have to go
somewhere in the car.

00:06:09,828 --> 00:06:11,But you're going to be good girls,
now, aren't you?

00:06:12,373 --> 00:06:15,Here are some cookies.
And don't fight over them.

00:06:15,376 --> 00:06:17,You'll stay inside, now,
won't you?

00:06:18,045 --> 00:06:19,Ruthie?

00:06:20,506 --> 00:06:24,When Grandma comes home you
can tell her you've been good girls.

00:06:25,427 --> 00:06:26,Now, tell me "Cheerio".

00:06:27,471 --> 00:06:29,Cheerio.
Can't we come, too?

00:06:29,973 --> 00:06:32,But, then, nobody
would be home for Grandma.

00:06:32,768 --> 00:06:34,Stay here.

00:06:39,525 --> 00:06:41,Where's she going?

00:06:55,332 --> 00:06:57,Oh, she was
about 5'8" and three quarters.

00:06:57,501 --> 00:06:59,A little taller than I **.
Very nice looking.

00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:01,Dark hair.

00:07:01,171 --> 00:07:04,The little girl looks
quite a little bit like her.

00:07:04,216 --> 00:07:05,Her features are much the same.

00:07:05,759 --> 00:07:07,- I'll just ask them.
- I see.

00:07:15,727 --> 00:07:17,What kind of car is Mummy's?

00:07:18,230 --> 00:07:19,It's Bernice's car.

00:07:20,691 --> 00:07:23,Okay.
What kind of car is Bernice's?

00:07:23,610 --> 00:07:24,Erm...

00:07:26,029 --> 00:07:27,Green.

00:07:28,282 --> 00:07:29,Ruthie?

00:07:29,616 --> 00:07:30,Blue.

00:08:00,063 --> 00:08:01,I could use some help.

00:08:01,482 --> 00:08:03,Could you boys give me a push
onto some solid ground?

00:08:03,817 --> 00:08:04,Sure.

00:08:04,985 --> 00:08:07,Stick this under the wheel.

00:08:12,201 --> 00:08:13,This, too.

00:08:15,162 --> 00:08:17,- No, you don't want to waste that.
- Take it, it's okay.

00:08:17,789 --> 00:08:19,No, we have some old clothes.

00:08:19,249 --> 00:08:21,Sandy put your jacket
under the wheel on your side.

00:08:21,418 --> 00:08:23,- No.
- C'mon Sandy.

00:08:23,921 --> 00:08:26,I'm not moving
till you take this.

00:08:26,757 --> 00:08:28,Use it!

00:08:39,811 --> 00:08:40,Ah, yuck!

00:08:59,998 --> 00:09:02,Thanks boys.
You've been a help.

00:09:02,417 --> 00:09:04,Here. Take it.

00:09:30,153 --> 00:09:33,I put the last of the white cake
on the table out there.

00:09:33,115 --> 00:09:36,It won't last long.
Shall I fetch you a piece?

00:09:36,243 --> 00:09:38,No, thanks, Etta.

00:09:38,620 --> 00:09:40,The soup was enough.

00:09:55,429 --> 00:09:56,How is she doing?

00:09:57,055 --> 00:09:58,She's quiet enough.

00:10:01,518 --> 00:10:03,Lucille and Ruthie.

00:10:04,438 --> 00:10:06,No, George.
It's Ruthie and Lucille.

00:10:08,150 --> 00:10:10,Have you shown the girls
the orchard yet?

00:10:10,402 --> 00:10:12,Yes, we had a walk
in the orchard this morning

00:10:12,738 --> 00:10:14,Have you shown them
your Indian knife?

00:10:15,115 --> 00:10:16,Yes, I have.

00:10:16,950 --> 00:10:18,Have you shown them
your Spanish coin?

00:10:19,202 --> 00:10:21,No, it's in my other pants' pocket.

00:10:30,589 --> 00:10:32,Grandmother
looked after us for seven years.

00:10:33,425 --> 00:10:37,The paperboy was the only
person under 60 that we saw regularly.

00:10:38,347 --> 00:10:40,It seemed as if, all her life,

00:10:40,349 --> 00:10:43,she was destined to be
braiding hair and whitening shoes.

00:10:44,227 --> 00:10:45,And she worried for us.

00:10:46,188 --> 00:10:50,Once, she told us she'd dreamed that
she'd seen a baby fall from an airplane.

00:10:50,525 --> 00:10:52,And had tried to catch it
in her apron.

00:10:53,362 --> 00:10:54,And once, in a dream,

00:10:54,529 --> 00:10:57,she had tried to fish a baby
out of a well with a tea strainer.

00:11:01,953 --> 00:11:04,She never talked about Mother,
or any of the family,

00:11:04,998 --> 00:11:07,except Grandpa and his mountains.

00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,It was only after she had died
that we were able to delve

00:11:12,506 --> 00:11:14,amongst the treasures
in her room.

00:11:15,467 --> 00:11:17,There, I found Mother

00:11:17,094 --> 00:11:19,and her sister, Sylvie,

00:11:19,179 --> 00:11:21,both banished
to the bottom drawer.

00:11:24,976 --> 00:11:27,I had high hopes
of Grandma's treasures,

00:11:27,437 --> 00:11:32,but most of the people in the photographs
remained strangers with no names.

00:11:33,151 --> 00:11:34,I returned to the album often,

00:11:35,070 --> 00:11:39,until the faces became familiar
and comfortable, like family.

00:11:40,909 --> 00:11:44,It was comforting to find
Lucille and Mother and me there, too.

00:11:44,621 --> 00:11:47,It seemed to suggest
that we belonged.

00:11:48,917 --> 00:11:52,Although Grandma's death
made the front page of the Dispatch,

00:11:52,379 --> 00:11:56,it was only because of her connection
with the spectacular derailment

00:11:56,133 --> 00:11:58,that had widowed her
twenty years earlier.

00:11:59,261 --> 00:12:02,It didn't even mention
the time or place of her funeral,

00:12:02,222 --> 00:12:05,but every detail of...