Life is a journey

Dora Ward Mercer has enjoyed the scenery along the road that is now named after her late husband Donald Mercer. The couple had been married for 60 years when he died nine years ago and, daily, she walks through the memories of rural life; of her first talk on a telephone, of getting electricity and plumbing and of marrying the boy next door. “Life is a journey,” she says, but before she speaks, when introduced to a photographer she assesses her look: Hat, old sweater… “I’ve got his shirt on,” she says.

Staff photo by Mark Gilchrist