1938: (Adelsia as Adult — When the Women Met Again as Adults Adelsia Was a Businesswoman Mother and Locally Celebrated Dancer, Adelsia Guiding Comhaire-Sylva…
1938: (Adelsia as Adult — When the Women Met Again as Adults Adelsia Was a Businesswoman Mother and Locally Celebrated Dancer, Adelsia Guiding Comhaire-Sylvain Through Her Days and Ultimately to the Kenscoff Cemeteries — Comhaire-Sylvain’s Detailed Notes Hand-Drawn Maps and Sketches of Tombs in Her Research Notebooks Suggesting She Spent Significant Time in the Cemeteries, the Pages of Measurements Names and Notes Connecting Cemetery Plots with Members of the Community Also Suggesting That the Two Women Had to Abide in One Another’s Presence for Extended Periods): When the women met again as adults, Adelsia was a businesswoman, mother, and locally celebrated dancer. Adelsia guided Comhaire-Sylvain through her days and ultimately to the Kenscoff cemeteries. Comhaire-Sylvain’s detailed notes, hand-drawn maps, and sketches of tombs in her research notebooks suggest she spent significant time in the cemeteries. The pages of measurements, names, and notes connecting the cemetery plots with members of the community also suggest that Adelsia and Comhaire-Sylvain had to abide in one another’s presence for extended periods of time — the ethnographic method required not extraction but duration, not the outsider’s quick visit but the slow accumulation of shared hours.