Elias Fries
Although Ron Silliman and I have very little in common when it comes to aesthetics, I am strangely pleased that he today discusses a sentence that refers to my great great (etc) grandfather Elias Fries, mushroom taxonomist.
Members of my mom's family still occasionally go to the Fries Family reunion, though - as readers of this blog may recall from a few months ago - our connection to the family is dubious, as my grandmother's father was something of a black sheep of the family due to his morphine addiction, squandering of the family finances, and subsequent suicide. As a result my grandmother had to work as a maid of sort, taking care of the kids of a cousin.
And there were only more scandals from there on out (fascism, out of wedlock pregnancies etc).
Members of my mom's family still occasionally go to the Fries Family reunion, though - as readers of this blog may recall from a few months ago - our connection to the family is dubious, as my grandmother's father was something of a black sheep of the family due to his morphine addiction, squandering of the family finances, and subsequent suicide. As a result my grandmother had to work as a maid of sort, taking care of the kids of a cousin.
And there were only more scandals from there on out (fascism, out of wedlock pregnancies etc).
posted by Johannes at 9:34 AM
3 Comments:
A lovely coincidence. Also, Tony Lopez rocks.
You would do well to write a family memoir. Or a series of them, sounds like.
Johannes,
You're directly descended from Elias Fries?!?
I'm an (very) amateur mycologist, and Fries is one of my heroes!
Kent
That's funny.
Yeah, the family still has Fries Family meetings. Sometimes people from my immediate family goes, though it was mainly my gramma who was into it.
J
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