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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIn 1925 my mom played piano on the stage for silent movies in Spokane.
No script, no score. She sat on the side and watched the movie
and improvised. She dated the mailman, a pilot who flew a bi-plane
into town (Cheney) with a mail sack. She later soloed in that plane. She said
it was the only time she saw her father cry. He was a professor of history
at Eastern Washington U. There's a building named for him there. Kingston Hall.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)KT2000
(20,588 posts)amazing about the piano - very talented woman.
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)There weren't many women pilots back then. What made her want to become a pilot? Curious because a friend of mine is in training to be a pilot and she is the only woman in her classes usually.
Fla Dem
(23,760 posts)applegrove
(118,793 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)All this is amazing! You have an impressive, extraordinary family.
1925? My mother was born in 25 and she just died at the age of 93.
panader0
(25,816 posts)She was 42 and when I was 42 I watched my first child being born.
Not sure about her mom--she was an orphaned half Crow from Lodge Grass,
Montana sent to school in Cheney. She was much younger than my grandfather and after four children she had an affair and was banished. about 1912 I believe. No one knows what
happened to her.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)I had my first living child at age 40 (my daughter died only hrs after her birth, born with a severe diaphragmatic hernia).
My great-grandmother was a strong-willed Cherokee who made it to 92. She kept a portrait of a native American on her living room wall but it was never explained to me who the man was.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Made me smile. Thanks for sharing.