Jim remembers his Hardy cousin Gertrude Bramley visiting the family in about 1998 in Concord with Howard Liljestrand who was visiting to make his final rounds in his beloved Boston and Woods Hole. Gertrude was a well known pediatrician who was head of Maternal and Child Welfare at the Federal Department of Health and Education who in her last 15 or so years of work lived and worked in maternal and child health at the regional office of HEW. She was about 83 and still working. She knew of Jim and his work in starting Braintree Hospital and at the Harvard School of Public Health (he was Assistant to the Dean—Howard Hiatt). Jim was unaware of Gertrude and her work. Jim recalls Gertrude bringing to the Concord House (396 Lexington Rd) a poster sized diagram of the relationships described in the charts below and in the Hardy details elsewhere). She described some male members of the Hardy family as ‘impetuous’. For example, in a family owned paper mill two generations of Hardys (Jim recalls it was Marvin) did work that was later described as extremely risky and without much planning. When Robert took the job at Waldorf Paper Mill in Minneapolis in 1944 his mother Ethel mentioned that he has entered the ‘family business’ of running paper mills. Gertrude had a very old family lake house on Lake Skaneateles she offered to Jim and Alice as she wanted to keep it in the family. Jim and Alice with two young daughters and a place in Woods Hole did not see how they could provide the energy and love necessary to keep up such a wonderful house.

Below is a chart of the second cousin relationship between Gertrude and my father Robert Liljestrand. Jim’s gr-grandfather Chauncey Hardy and Gertrude’s gr-grandfather Amelia Hardy were siblings. Amelia was the twin sister of Adelia Hardy (1852-1930), who married Charles Tator.