A Holiday Remembrance Of Home

A Holiday Remembrance Of Home

Rich Gillham is shown a couple years before he died. (Courtesy photo) By George AyoubNebraska ExaminerScience informs us that our sense of smell can evoke vivid memories. The phenomenon is sometimes known as the “Proust Effect,” for a scene from Marcel Proust’s novel “Remembrance of Things Past,” when a character’s childhood memories come flooding back, triggered by the scent of a sweet cake called a madeleine. For me it’s lilacs. Every Memoria…