video record.........

ok, so my middle child has spent many hours of late interviwing my mother on videotape.......not for a school project, but for his own personal interest.............somewhere in this house is the audio tape i made of my grandfather broughton.....from cleveland, ohio..........on which he describes ty cobb as a drunkard and tells about the day he stopped at the barbershop on the way home from school to have his blond curls cut off.........i was a poor interveiwer.......being young and naive.....so i did not know to ask him .....was he a klan member?.......and did he have black kinfolk?...and how could a family who ran an underground railroad stop have gotten so far off track in 2-3 generations......ah well.....when my mother's cousin was in town 2 years ago.....my mother was not surprised when cousin bruce mentioned that his grandfather.......had a brother who married a black woman...that would also be my mother's grandfather........my mother went so far as to say that there were black broughtons at ohio university when she was in college, and that she wondered if they were kin........and she recalled a family of black folk who came to sunday night supper a few times......and she wondered if they were kin.......but she never asked............and so we will never know....because we are too shy to ask the right questions...............