Everyday Stories Hidden

“Often, when we tell the stories of the past,” he began telling the apron as he fastened the hem over, “we forget the most important and most human elements of the story. We talk about names and dates and battles, and, if we’re lucky, we hear a thing or two about the wives of the ‘great men’ who made the history. Once in a while, we hear about a great woman making the history, but that’s about it. The people who lived out the history we see on paper or parchment or vellum are forgotten."