Oh, I know. My grandmother was always telling me stories about that kind of thing. (She was also always telling me about the time the Hindenburg flew over her house so...)
elm
and my great-grandmother was one of the first women allowed to join the army in wwi
BTW, when I said 'we'll be having our turn with this crap next' I was referring to people being jailed for writing books, but I don't doubt plenty of even merely quasi-'feminist' women will be getting the hose at the same time.
BTW 2: here's the house my grandmother lived in in '37 when she saw the Hindenberg pass overhead (it's the pink one in street view - it had, at the time, a regulation-length bowling lane in the basement).
Oh yeah. She had an interesting childhood, what with eight siblings and a couple of ultra-wealthy grandparents. 'Da' (her father, my great-grandfather) was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in '36 - he took the subway. As one might guess, a rock-ribbed Northeastern Republican father and his extremely pro-FDR daughter had lots of nasty arguments.
Also: she was helping provide the food and staff work as a volunteer for the luncheon JFK was travelling to when he was assassinated.
(To circle back around to your comment about women having a rough time, she was always talking about the Texas law that made it an affirmative defence to murder if a man killed his wife when he found her cheating on him. This did not go the other way around.)
I vaguely remembered this from when I was small.
We'll be having our turn with this crap next.
elm
*sigh*
It has not been that long that women had no say at all.
Oh, I know. My grandmother was always telling me stories about that kind of thing. (She was also always telling me about the time the Hindenburg flew over her house so...)
elm
and my great-grandmother was one of the first women allowed to join the army in wwi
BTW, when I said 'we'll be having our turn with this crap next' I was referring to people being jailed for writing books, but I don't doubt plenty of even merely quasi-'feminist' women will be getting the hose at the same time.
BTW 2: here's the house my grandmother lived in in '37 when she saw the Hindenberg pass overhead (it's the pink one in street view - it had, at the time, a regulation-length bowling lane in the basement).
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7699892,-74.0171706,3a,75y,323.09h,81.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfnv2kh6IL-cJDGBfNXFhrg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en
I managed to relocate the house on street view because it's two houses down and across the street from Alexander Hamilton's 'Death Rock'. See here:
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/6160
elm
having an heiress for a mother was ... helpful
These are just fascinating. I'd dine out on having seen the Hindenberg forever.
That death rock site...strange to live near that.
Oh yeah. She had an interesting childhood, what with eight siblings and a couple of ultra-wealthy grandparents. 'Da' (her father, my great-grandfather) was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in '36 - he took the subway. As one might guess, a rock-ribbed Northeastern Republican father and his extremely pro-FDR daughter had lots of nasty arguments.
Also: she was helping provide the food and staff work as a volunteer for the luncheon JFK was travelling to when he was assassinated.
(To circle back around to your comment about women having a rough time, she was always talking about the Texas law that made it an affirmative defence to murder if a man killed his wife when he found her cheating on him. This did not go the other way around.)
elm
interesting life she had
It is wonderful you know this family history. Makes sense you are so complex.