
'The century of foundlings'—what Cynthia found when she went looking maternal family secrets
From Conversations
Published 4/13/2026

From Conversations
Published 4/13/2026
Writer Cynthia Banham on discovering the shocking truth about her great-grandmother, reckoning with buried family secrets, and the criticisms mothers face from others and sometimes most harshly, from themselves.Cynthia Banham grew up hearing the story of her great-grandmother, Natalina, who had…