PAST IS PROLOGUE

My Family’s History Is a Prop at Cracker Barrel

A random photo sent me down a rabbit hole of learning more about my immigrant great-grandfather, his employer Endicott Johnson, and the era of welfare capitalism

Lauren Modery
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readNov 5, 2021

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Photo by Wayne Spoehr; used with permission

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Lauren Modery
Human Parts

Freelance writer; film Loves Her Gun premiered @ SXSW ‘13; used to be a Hollywood assistant; rail enthusiast; check out my dumb blog, hipstercrite.com