"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
- Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
Sisters
Elise Ford Allen and Florence Ford Pickett at Camp Butler in Springfield, Illinois as children. The mansion house on the cemetery was the home of Major George Ford. Annual family reunions were held at the location.
