245 Uncle George’s Rocker

It arrived today – unscathed and looking as great as it had when Bill, the owner of the hardware store UPS repository in little Robinson, Illinois, packaged it up for shipping to Florida – the antique that my Great-Uncle George rocked in as an infant. Acquired in the auction of the family estate after the passing of Aunt Lucy, a 92-year-old fireball until her final days, the chair has special significance to our family as the ‘rocker in the pictures’ that were taken of Isaac’s first visit to Illinois, then a mere four months from the womb – the trip that was his Great Grandmothers first sighting of the lad – the occasion of his Great-Great Aunt’s nimble cascade to the floor to serve as an anchor for Isaac as his developing little legs launched him across the living room floor while she crawled along behind him offering her solid support from which he could propel himself – all images indelibly etched in the memories of everyone who observed this phenomenon. The chair is rapidly approaching its century anniversary and, based on the inspection of its solidarity, shall easily make the mark. Isaac never knew his Uncle George and his Uncle George never met him, but it would have brought a squinting grin to the old gentleman’s face if he had. I, however, have had the privilege of knowing both and the real joy of seeing the chair and imaging what that meeting might have been like will be a story that one day I shall have the honor of sharing with my grandson, relating to him the saga of Uncle George’s Rocker.

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