5/18/2023 0 Comments Book a fall of marigolds![]() She does her work well and is friends with her roommate, but never goes out, never pursues other friendships, has no future plans. She moved to Ellis Island to work and hasn’t set foot in Manhattan since. But she lost him in the Triangle Factory Shirtwaist Fire. Their relationship had never progressed beyond mutual attraction, but she felt certain they were going to know each other better. Some months earlier she had worked in Manhattan and encountered a man named Edward every day on the elevator. ![]() Clara is in her own in-between place as well. Immigrants who come in are kept on the island for a time if they have been exposed to any kind of contagious disease. She describes it as something of an in-between place. ![]() ![]() In A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner, Clara Woods is a nurse on Ellis Island in September of 1911. ![]()
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