Charles Brasch and Brian and Stephanie ndianer

I Charles Brasch, of West
Bloomfield, grew up on
I Humphrey Street in Detroit.
It was a wonderful neighbor-
I hood, he says, and many of
I those raised there still keep
in touch.

Mr. Brasch has a passion for
These days, Mr. Brasch keeps
1 working with tools and wood.
busy with his 10 grandchildren,
"I'm a little handy," he says. "So 1,,
who range in age from , 3-1 /2
try to do projects with my grandchil-
to 10. Even when the Brasches
dren. We'll take a block of wood,
go to Florida, where they spend
1 add some wheels and make it into
several months each year, they
a car."
make it a point to see their
Being in her grandfather's work-
grandchildren.
"Of
course,
we
do
"It's a nice mix of people, now
!
shop
is one of the things Mr.
it at staggered times," he
they're engineers and dentists and
Brasch's granddaughter
explains.
doctors," he says. "Ninety percent
Stephanie
Indianer, also o
"Our place there is small."
of us were college graduates."
West Bloomfield, loves
Mr. Brasch enjoys picnics and
A second-generation Detroiter, Mr.
best.
swimming with his grandchildren.
Brasch remembers playing a lot of
"I like to swim with him and to
He
tries
to
tailor
activities
to
the
kick-the-can with his pals when he
work
with him in his working
interests of each, such as taking
was a boy. He wasn't big on base-
room," she says. "It has lots of cool
one grandchild, who loves music,
' ball, "because I was always the last
working
stuff. I like the drilling
to the Motown Museum. "We go to
to be picked [for a team]," but he
thing."
I Belle Isle, too," he says. "We take
I sure liked football. "We used to
Stephanie, who is in second-
I turns with all of them."
play in a neighboring field."

grade at Hillel Day School,
describes her grandfather as "an
I interesting person."
When she's not hard at work in
I Mr. Brasch's shop, Stephanie enjoys
playing outside. She also goes
swimming at the Jewish Community
Center, where she's on a swim
team. She says breast stroke is her
best.
"I like playing soccer, too, and
Mancala," she says.
Stephanie's brother, Brian Indian-
er, 8, also enjoys his grandfather's
1 workshop, where the two built a
l small wooden house.
Brian's hobbies are basketball,
football and watching "Cousin
Skeeter" on TV.

10/16
1998

Detroit Jewish News

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