My Mom "Beatrice" cut it down when I was very young to make a place for
a cloths line. The bush grew back from the roots and when we moved in
59 it was a fine tree.
My brother "Fred Porter" went out to the Southside, dug it up and
replanted it at the new place in Kilbride.I took a sucker from that
bush and planted it in The Codroy Valley.
Here is Jessie's great-great grand daughter, Patti Hardy
in front of Jessie's Lilac!
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I am going off track.When I visited The Coast Guard Base on the Southside
in June, 1998, I couldn't resist going to the end of the building and having
a look
There low and behold Jessie's Lilac had grown again from the roots
that were left,it was in full bloom!!! Guess what?? I sat on the edge of the
wharf and I cried!!
I cried for the dear people who have passed on, for their
children, whom I have lost contact, for a neighbourhood that "progress"
destroyed.
I think I cried more for myself and the memory of returning home in 58, after after
a year away and finding everything Mom and Dad could do with out packed in boxes.
The next time I came home, my parents had move, and the demolition had begun
I feel like Jessie's Lilac, torn up by the roots.
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