They said that because I was darker than Father and Mother I was really the son of my great-grandfather, who was, by all accounts, nearly as dark as I am.
My grandfather was nine, and he ran out of the house in just his shirtsleeves.
His father, my grandfather, was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.
My Austrian great-grandfather had fought in the Great War and was no longer young when Anschluss came in 1938.
There was the documented version that sat properly in my grandfather's office.
My grandfather told me that Oakland, was built up by earthquake survivors who moved across the bay.
My grandfather had accepted as gospel the idea that the way to build a nest egg was to let the dividends be reinvested in more stock let it ride and multiply.
My grandfather did not know what to make of his encounter in the smokehouse, but his throat was tight when the blacksmith emerged from his house with the gun under his arm.
My grandfather crept up the ramp to the smokehouse and stood in the doorway, looking in, and realized there was a lot less light than he had initially supposed.
My sister said I was the crazy one, rattling around the three-story dilapidated mansion our great-grandfather built before he died of syphilis, wondering how I was going to pay the light bill.
"My grandfather was once asked who do you love more, this ship or my grandmother, and he said, 'the ship, a thousand percent, ' " said Susan Gibbs, executive director of the SS United States Conservancy.
My grandfather went to other adventures, including service in the Army in France during the First World War (where he was wounded by shrapnel), but went on to live a long life - in San Francisco, of course.
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