... all recovery...I found myself a very lonely children sitting for hours in a corner listening to my mother play the piano." A happier time in her childhood came in1890, when Louise went to stay with her stepgrandfather at his mining station. It was located several miles away from the nearest town, very much isolated from civilization. While she was there she learned how to ride horses ... lived a life less filled with conventions as to how a young lady should act, instead she played in the desert with horses and dogs. "It was a strange and curious bringing up," Louise wrote about her expe...

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... was to pick apples for canning. She also liked to ride the farm horses, even if it was to haul wood. Norine left school at 16 in 1928 and went to work at the coat factory. She made $7.14 a week. Norine recalls that was pretty good money at that time. She worked as a sleeve setter, ... He has 3 sisters and 1 brother still living. James grew up in a suburban environment. He recalls the houses were side by side and all looked alike. James" father was a salesman for the knitting mills. He sold the product from the knitting mills to stores to be sold to consumers. James" remembers his father...

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