Ingram Lamps and Shades Gift Shop lost its store in the flood on July 4th. Amy Grace Ulman came from Ohio to help her family salvage what’s left.
INGRAM, Texas — Ingram Lamps and Shades Gift Shop lost its store to the flood that hit their area on July 4th.
Amy Grace Ulman, once a counselor at Camp Mystic, dropped everything in Ohio. Ulman flew in to help salvage what’s left of her family’s store in Ingram.
Once filled with life and color, Ulman’s parents’ lamps and shades store, of three decades, was ripped away in the flood.
“It’s all just blanketed with the grief,” Ulman said.
The grief of her community ties, once a counselor at Camp Mystic.
“I flew in last night to help my parents with their store and just deal with the grief and loss,” Ulman said. “They’ve lost four friends in the flood including Dick Eastland, who is the Mystic director.”
Ulman is reflecting on the lives that’ve forever changed.
“I have so many friends who are campers there, whose daughters are campers there or were, they are just grieving so much right now,” Ulman said. “I’m just brokenhearted for the people lost to the river. It’s just really unimaginable.”
Their store does have a temporary location just across the street at Southwestern Elegance Antiques as they try to keep decades of history going.