Chapter 4 - AVERY HALL
Avery Hall was not my home.
That distinction became important.
It was a historic property owned by the Avery Cultural Foundation.
My great-great-grandfather built the original house.
The family transferred it to the foundation decades later.
Now it contained:
Archives.
Event rooms.
A small museum.
Foundation offices.
Conference space.
No one Avery owned the building personally.
Lenora chaired the Heritage Committee.
Not the Foundation Board.
Her authority covered:
Archival exhibitions.
Historic furnishings.
Family oral-history projects.
Anniversary publications.
Ceremonial events.
That was enough for trouble.
The one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth anniversary book was her project.
I approved a budget.
Then stopped paying attention.
That was my mistake.
I assumed a family history book would contain old photographs and too many stories about people named Edward.
It did.
It also contained a modern family section Lenora had redesigned without bringing it back to the full committee.
The original concept:
Living descendants and legal family branches.
Lenora changed the heading to:
CONTINUING BLOODLINE.
May you like
One word.
Then an entire ideology.
