:11:00
Known for all that you were
during this brief stay.
:11:03
How sad it seems to leave this earth...
:11:06
...without those you love the most
ever really knowing who you were.
:11:12
It's easy for a mother to love
her children, no matter what.
:11:16
I don't know
if it's as simple for children.
:11:19
You're all so busy being angry
at us for raising you wrong.
:11:29
His name was Robert Kincaid.
:11:34
He was a photographer
and he was here in 1965...
:11:37
...shooting a National Geographic
article...
:11:40
...on the covered bridges
of Madison County.
:11:43
Remember when we got that issue,
when we got the subscription...
:11:46
...how we felt like celebrities?"
:11:57
That's Roseman Bridge.
:12:06
That must be Robert Kincaid.
:12:11
And that's Mom's medallion.
:12:19
"I don't want you to be angry with him.
:12:22
I hope after you know the story,
you think well of him, even grateful."
:12:28
-Grateful?
-"It's all there in the 3 notebooks."
:12:40
"It was the week
of the Illinois State Fair.
:12:45
The two of you were going
with Dad to exhibit...
:12:49
...Carolyn's prize steer.
:12:55
It was the Sunday night you left.
I know it sounds awful...."
:12:59
But I couldn't wait for you to leave.