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We would go get fried chicken at the Woolworth\u2019s on Broughton Street and go with our sketch pads to the Colonial Cemetery to picnic atop the family vaults that were all shaped like gigantic brick bedsteads. Helen and I loved to climb on these strange bed-shaped vaults and to lie there on the gently curved bellies of the tombs and play at being dead. And while we played, Mother drew in her sketch pad.<\/p>\n<p>At the very back of the cemetery was a playground with old, rusted iron swings that shrieked when you swung\u00a0in them. Helen and I loved to swing high and make the swings shriek mournfully\u2014the cry of our flight. On the other side of the brick wall, overlooking the playground, rose the Savannah jailhouse\u2014a tall old building with a tower topped by a red onion dome. High up in the jailhouse wall were dark arched windows where you could sometimes see the silhouettes of men\u2019s heads\u2014the prisoners watching us as we swung.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re the greatest artist in the whole wide world, Mother. You\u2019re also the best, funnest, most beautiful Mother in the whole wide world. And you cook such good food too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mother made us say that to her over and over again\u2014every day. And I think we said it sincerely. Mother almost never cooked\u2014but when she did, what she made was always luscious. And I think Mother was a great artist. There is an innocence to Mother\u2019s work that is like a form of revelation.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years of our childhood, Helen and I were to become Mother\u2019s most trusted and devoted encouragers and critics. Mother would call us in from the backyard to examine whatever painting she was working on. We would make our pronouncements with great authority. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s finished, Mother. Don\u2019t do another thing to it. If you touch it again, you\u2019ll ruin it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut isn\u2019t it a bit sketchy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may think it sketchy, Mother. But that\u2019s part of its power\u2014its sketchiness. If you touch it again, you\u2019ll ruin it. You know what happened to the last painting?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one in oils?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Mother. We told you it was finished. But you didn\u2019t listen to us. And look what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mother: \u201cIt got all muddy. I ruined it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wee all three look at the painting.<\/p>\n<p>Mother: \u201cSo you\u2019re sure it\u2019s finished?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edgar: \u201cYes, Mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helen: \u201cAbsolutely, positively certain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then we all three\u00a0study the painting for some minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Helen: \u201cIt\u2019s a masterpiece, Mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edgar: \u201cYes. Truly a masterpiece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helen and Edgar together: \u201cYou\u2019re the greatest artist in the whole wide world, Mother!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mother: \u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helen and Edgar together: \u201cYou\u2019re also the best, funnest, most beautiful Mother in the whole wide world! And you cook such good food\u00a0too!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then we kiss Mother thirteen times\u2014at the end shouting out jubilantly all together, \u201cThirteen!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This piece originally appeared in <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/thefolioclub.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Folio Club<\/a><em>\u2019s drawing issue.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Edgar Oliver is a writer and actor. His one-man show <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenandedgar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Helen &amp; Edgar<\/a> <em>(2012) featured some of these drawings, all of which are by his mother, Louise. Edgar\u2019s newest theatrical work, <\/em>In the Park<em>, was performed at Axis Theater this past spring.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorite places to play, all throughout my childhood, was in cemeteries. 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