@jinglepostman @KarenStrickholm Thank you both for the wonderful list of book recommendations.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Leslie πΊπΈπ»π π last edited by
@Lesliesez @KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman What a wonderful resource to crib from!
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Karen Strickholmreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @jinglepostman Exactly. And you always leave with a present!
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Karen Strickholmreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @jinglepostman That is wild! Do you still have it? What was the book about?
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Leslie πΊπΈπ»π πreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman what an amazing story about getting your great aunt's book as well!
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Karen Strickholm last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman A cousin of mine gave a nice luncheon yesterday for a group of friends (and me as family), and she happened to mention her book club to me. That gave me an opportunity to tell her about this discussion of book clubs and some of the wonderful ideas I'm hearing about them here. She was very interested!
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Karen Strickholm last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman I do still have it. Haven't looked at it in years, and honestly can't quite remember what it's about. My recollection is that it tells some boring story that would otherwise have been told in English, but was translated into Latin. I remember how surprised I was when my teacher handed me the book. Even before I saw the signature of my great-aunt, Frances Tucker (she married my grandfather's brother), I recognized her handwriting.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman I knew the handwriting because, after Frances died young of t.b., her widowed husband John came to live with my grandmother, his sister, and after his death, John's trunk remained in my grandmother's attic. We grandchildren used to play in the attic and open the old trunks, and in John's trunk was a diary Frances had kept while at university and then in a treatment home for t.b. patients.
I have now given that diary to a a local archive.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman I also knew Frances' handwriting because a little picture that had belonged to her, Guido Reni's "Aurora," hung in my grandmother's bedroom, and I would sometimes take it down to look at and look at the back, where she had written that the painting in the picture was Guido Areni's "Aurora." I now have that little picture and treasure it, because it has so many good childhood memories attached to it. It occurs to me to attach a photo of Frances on her wedding day.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Leslie πΊπΈπ»π π last edited by
@Lesliesez @KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman It was quite a surprise, since my great-aunt didn't even live in the town in which I went to high school, and my Latin teacher had never known her. She thought she had bought that book at a used bookstore.
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Karen Strickholmreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @jinglepostman The no stress dinner book club lives on!
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Karen Strickholmreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @jinglepostman So young and so pretty!
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Karen Strickholm last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman She was β and, tragically, she died tragically young at the age of 31 less than three years after marrying my great-uncle. They had a son born in 1922 and she immediately discovered she had advanced t.b. and went off to a treatment place, then came home to die. My great-uncle never recovered. They were a real love match, as her diary indicated. Her family were well-educated and wealthy Massachusetts folks who came to Arkansas after the Civil War.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman My great-uncle was a son of a small central Arkansas farmer and Irish immigrant mother. He had no education to speak of and certainly no money. But they were head over heels in love with each other and married despite her family's opposition, which she mentions delicately in her diary.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Karen Strickholm last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman Love to hear about it!
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Elizabeth S.replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Oh, that's heartbreaking! and their son had to grow up without his mother. I hope her family reconciled before she died.
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Karen Strickholmreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @jinglepostman This sounds great! And also like it could be a wonderful film.
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Karen Strickholmreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @jinglepostman That is such a sad but beautiful love story. Spent a good bit of time studying that wedding photograph, there is so much in it. Maybe she was already sick then. I could write a few pages on it... If I had a bit more energy. Noy sure I do, bur I'm thinking the thoughts about it.
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Karen Strickholmreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @jinglepostman I have to remember to tell y'all about the tb sanitoriums out here and in Denver. The altitude and dry air.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Karen Strickholm last edited by
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman The sanitorium to which Frances went was in Denver. I had avoid saying that because I never know the correct spelling of the word "sanitorium"! Tragically, she was one of three sisters who lived to adulthood, and her two sisters Ruth and Mary also died of t.b., though not at Frances' young age. Like her, they were very well-educated women. Both did much to educate and serve the local community, and they raised Frances' son after she died. Neither married.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Karen Strickholm last edited by [email protected]
@KarenStrickholm @jinglepostman That's a good question: whether Frances was already sick when she married, but didn't know it. The photo was taken on the porch of her family's house in Little Rock. She was apparently quite smitten with John, who's said to have been a looker (below), though I can't say I myself see the appeal! He died two years before I was born, so I never knew him. I did know three of my great-uncles on that side of the family, and dearly loved two of them.