A Simple Illustrated Story for a Snowy Day
Bringing my Nana’s 1940s tale to life with little drawings
3 min readNov 22, 2020
Myrtle, my nana, raised seven daughters on Cape Cod in the 1940s. With my grandfather she ran the Hotel Englewood, a fixture on the south Cape through the 1960s. She loved books and recorded stories on cassette recorders from her “command station” overlooking Lewis Bay. At some point, she wrote…