Some parents never stop being parents. Whereas some see their children grow up and fly the coop for independence, work, further education or family, some may never come back. For a startling amount of Appalachian grandparents, the only kid they see step back through the door is a much smaller, younger, softer child in need of a home. Before they know it, they\u2019re running around, juggling personal responsibilities and raising a child, as if they\u2019re 35 all over again. What one can call this is Maw\u2019s love \u2013 an old-fashioned, gritty type of perseverance, guardianship and obligation to love and care. And it\u2019s all over these pages.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith everything I do in my work, I like to stick around long enough until I see every side of the story and the people within it. I met some of these families during their hardest chapters, some during their happiest times, and sometimes that would even shift,\u201d says Anthony. \u201cI was a friend, even considered a family member to some of them, so it was hard to frame an image of a loved one going through a hard time. It definitely weighed on me.\u201d It\u2019s not always about capturing a feeling in real-time with Anthony \u2013 sometimes he would walk away from a visit without taking a single photograph, but on the drive back he would catch a flickering moment in flowing rivers, autumnal graveyards, abandoned buildings that would represent grandfamilies in metaphorical, spiritual ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some parents never stop being parents. Whereas some see their children grow up and fly the coop for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-478513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}