Noted In Passing

If she were alive, my grandmother would be 100 years old today.

You may not have heard of my grandmother, Bea Berg. But if you're an upper-midwestern Lutheran - or been in the home of one for any length of time - you've seen her work.

You've seen "Amazing Grace", the picture of the old man saying grace? Apparently, my grandmother was working at Eric Enstrom's photo studio in Bovey, MN at the time, and had some hand in producing the original photo. Exactly what hand, I don't know - dark-room, hand-coloring (I was amazed the first time I learned that the picture was a photo, not a painting), but my Grandma had a hand in it.