I think despite my grandmother being raised to believe she had to conform to a certain way (of being a proper lady) that privately, I suspect she may've had her own way. I mean, she skipped two grades, graduated high school at 16, went onto college, and when she married she was making more than her husband. I just don't see how you can have that kind of potential and not have the experience of "proper women stay home" not twist you...
At least, that's one theory for why I think she outwardly did the whole "here are important people we're related to" but within the family, she had all sorts of stories about the oddballs and the outcasts. She seemed to find it immensely, if quietly, amusing that our so-called "historical roots" of "how long in this country" that the DAR prized so much... amounted, in great part, to coming over as felons and debtors in the first settlements of Georgia. I mean, once you know who Oglethorpe was picking, it's not something to boast about, is it? Not that she did, but I think she enjoyed pulling one over, of a sort, on the DAR and its picky rules. She got the community-cred of being a member, but the joke was definitely on DAR and not her.
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Date: 22 Jan 2011 04:21 am (UTC)At least, that's one theory for why I think she outwardly did the whole "here are important people we're related to" but within the family, she had all sorts of stories about the oddballs and the outcasts. She seemed to find it immensely, if quietly, amusing that our so-called "historical roots" of "how long in this country" that the DAR prized so much... amounted, in great part, to coming over as felons and debtors in the first settlements of Georgia. I mean, once you know who Oglethorpe was picking, it's not something to boast about, is it? Not that she did, but I think she enjoyed pulling one over, of a sort, on the DAR and its picky rules. She got the community-cred of being a member, but the joke was definitely on DAR and not her.