{"id":32,"date":"2015-10-16T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crosalindbell.net\/blog\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2015-11-29T13:27:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T21:27:58","slug":"indiegogo-campaign","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.crosalindbell.net\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiegogo Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ca_rosalind_bell\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Please visit my Indiegogo Page for more info about my full campaign<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Read Tamiko Nimura’s interview recently published in\u00a0the Seattle Star<\/a><\/p>\n

About my project:<\/p>\n

LOUISIANA,\u00a01928-1964<\/p>\n

Nanaan, my grandmother, has as her soul mission the education and uplift of the Negro race. \u201cEducation,\u201d she says, \u201cis our only way out.\u201d \u00a0She travels rutted roads to beg farmers and sharecroppers to get their children out of the fields and into school.<\/p>\n

1948<\/p>\n

My mother and my father marry in his hometown where she has come, two years before, to teach.<\/p>\n

1950<\/p>\n

My parents\u2019 first miscarriage.<\/p>\n

1952<\/p>\n

My parents\u2019 second miscarriage.<\/p>\n

1953<\/p>\n

My parents\u2019 third loss.<\/p>\n

1954<\/p>\n

In April, Nanaan, drives her Chevy deep into the country to pay last respects to her 44-year old farmer cousin. \u00a0He was the father of ten children; his youngest four months old.<\/p>\n

A week after the funeral Nanaan returns to the country to speak with her cousin\u2019s wife, now his widow. \u00a0With the death of\u00a0 her cousin, and five children left to raise,\u00a0 wouldn\u2019t it be best to give the baby to a couple who could provide not just love, but opportunity? A couple armed with college degrees, a home and pockets full of dreams? “Education,” she says “is our only way out.”<\/p>\n

A month after the visit, the couple, Nanaan\u2019s daughter and\u00a0 her husband, welcome the baby into their home, their lives.<\/p>\n

Their child grows. They are proud and happy parents!<\/p>\n

1969<\/p>\n

“I have something to tell you.” She is fifteen when her mother calls to her, but she already knows. She has joined the Secret Keepers and does not let on that she knows. Her mother brings out a picture of her first mother something she has never seen. She leaves the picture with her mother and goes back to her life.<\/p>\n

1995<\/p>\n

Within a year she loses both her mother and her father. She feels free now to don the hat of the first family. It does not fit right. She takes it off.<\/p>\n

2004<\/p>\n

She tries it on again. This time it is way too tight. It hurts. She takes it off vowing to never again try.<\/p>\n

2015<\/p>\n

She begins her search. She\u00a0must excavate this story that has found her, mine it and set it free.<\/p>\n

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