Share this postPhoto, Grandmother, Mary Anne Stapleton, Circa 1970. asenseofplacemagazine.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherThe Private Blogs of John StapletonPhoto, Grandmother, Mary Anne Stapleton, Circa 1970. A Sense of Place MagazineJul 17, 1970Share this postPhoto, Grandmother, Mary Anne Stapleton, Circa 1970. asenseofplacemagazine.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherSharePhoto, Grandmother, Mary Anne Stapleton, Circa 1970. My father's mother.She, like my grandmother on my mother's side, brought up six children during the Great Depression. She was a bustle of a woman, and would never stop working.