Submitted by Donna Rinehart, Dover, Pennsylvania Off the bus from school House smells of banana bread We eat the whole loaf! My grandmother, Mildred Whitaker (Gram), was born in 1905 and lived most of her life in Cooperstown, New York, where she worked for many years at the Baseball Hall of Fame as secretary to Howard Talbot, the director of the museum. While working there, Gram met the players who were inducted into the Hall of Fame. She attended World Series games, courtesy of the Hall of Fame, wearing her lovely Pendleton wool suits. She was a good and thrifty cook, and she loved to cook for family, especially the menfolk of the family—perhaps because she had been widowed in her early 50s. Whenever one of her granddaughters visited, she cooked something special for the grandsons-in-law, usually a pie. Of course, she always had a list for them to accomplish first—hang …
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