Amalia's Story, Chapter Thirty-Five
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"The problem of Mrs. Hall(iday)"
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #26:
A Double Affair!
by Angela Thirkell (1957)
https://angelathirkellsociety.org/writings/book-summaries/
Flashback to 1957 - A Timeline of Life in America
https://youtu.be/574xy0wXsM0?si=_M01T8gIntYOc_48
"A Double Affair" opens with the wedding of Vicar Choyce to family retainer Miss Dorothea (“Merry”) Merriman.
It closes with the double weddings of George Halliday and John Crosse to Jane and Grace Crawley, of suitable age, having suddenly made their appearance.
Fortunately, the young men promptly and obligingly fall in love.
Along the way,
the problem of Mrs. Halliday,
the widowed parent, is explored until said “relict” takes charge of her own life, removing herself not only to live with a congenial cousin in Northbridge, but later to permanent residency on the French Riviera, to the not unmixed relief of her son and daughter.
So much for the “empty nest” and doting granny-hood.
And if anyone recalls that Edith Graham has, in one fell swoop, lost two of her quasi-suitors, be of good cheer, Lord William Harcourt has conveniently appeared in the wings.
= Louis Jacobucci
"Ray Hall of Falmouth"
RECEIVING LINE
Barnstable Patriot, July 01, 1965
http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/sturgis/sharedview.article.aspx?href=BAR%2F1965%2F07%2F01&id=Ar00614&sk=8A235649&viewMode=text
In the receiving line at
Hyannis Junior Woman's Club
17th annual Charity Ball at the
Wianno Club last Friday night were, from left.
Ray Hall of Falmouth,
president of the
Cape District of the
MSPCC
which benefited from the proceeds of the affair;
Louis Jacobucci,
executive secretary of the
Cape District;
David C. Stevenson, and
Mrs. Stevenson, who was chairman of the ball; Howard Penn and
Mrs. Penn who Is vice president of
Junior Woman's Club, and
Philip Baker and
Mrs Baker, president of the elub.
( Photo by Craig Studio I
= Velveteen Andrews
🔟SongsRadioLIVE
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Doris Lessing Book Summary
"Through the Tunnel"
https://youtu.be/wCCyvdFF93E?si=-vl4Q8giMrNeJ2zv
The Habit of Loving!
by Doris Lessing (1957)
AI Answer:
"Doris Lessing published The Habit of Loving, a collection of 17 short stories, in 1957.
The stories are set in various locations, including Africa, England, France, and Germany, and explore
the role of relationships in human behavior.
The stories can be
dryly ironic,
satirical,
realistic, or
tragic,
and include themes such as:
the . . . dilemmas of an attractive woman and
the challenges of . . . transition to manhood.
Some of the stories in the collection include:
The Habit of Loving,
The Words He Said,
The Women, and
Through the Tunnel."
== (The Googles, just now)
= Harriet McCurdy Cameron Hall Jacobucci
"DATES"
The Register, October 07, 1971
http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/sturgis/sharedview.article.aspx?href=DPLTR%2F1971%2F10%2F07&id=Ar02600&sk=9111003A&viewMode=text
Cape Cod Home-maker Health Aide Service in Hyannis is recruiting.
A training program begins Oct. 20 running Wednesday afternoons for eight weeks at the Upper Cape Cod Regional Vocational Technical School ln Bourne.
Inquiries may be made to Mrs. Harriet Hall at the agency in Hyannis.
Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #15:
"What happened after the Cub Scout Banquet?"
"That would have been in March of 1965 . . . "
"Here's something! First published April 1965 -- "
"Louis Jacobucci, Casework Treatment of the Neglectful Mother."
"Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, Volume 46, Issue 4."
"Oh, look! They had references!"
“The Protective Service Caseworker: How Does He Survive Job Pressures?”
“Use of Homemaker Service in Families That Neglect Their Children."
“The Team Approach in Protective Service.”
"Character Disorders in Parents of Delinquents."
"There's more."
"That's OK."
Presently . . .
"Loneliness and Isolation in Child Neglect."
"Dispositional Empathy in Neglectful Mothers and Mothers at High Risk for Child Physical Abuse."
"The Training of Neglectful and Unsatisfactory Mothers."
"The Socialization of Emotional Understanding: A Comparison of Neglectful and Nonneglectful Mothers and Their Children."
"In ...
"What?!"
"I didn't say anything."
"How can you say such a thing?"
"I'm not going through this again."
"What do you mean?"
"All this -- denial. I'm done. I'm just going to say exactly what happened as I remember it."
"It never happened!"
"The reason I know it happened is that I renember it. I was eight years old. My brother was twelve years old. I was able to recover the date because I remember at some point in the week preceding the event, our father for some reason had told us, I'm going to be speaking at the Unitarian Church this Sunday at 11:00. It did not seem weird to me at the time, because he was always out of the house anyway. Plus all he used to when he was home was harangue me, so good."
"You lie."
"In fact, I remember thinking, it made sense that he would get something going on Sundays, because that was the only time he was ever even around anymore. Weekdays he was working, of course, and weeknights he was always at one of his many, many important community activities."
"You are delusional."
"Then, I found this article, and it all ...
"I have a thesis. My thesis is: In any woman's life, having children would have to be the most significant event. So, in my mother's story -- "
"Her family wasn't really any different from any of the other families."
"Yes."
"In what way?"
"She and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Both her children went to school."
"What else?"
"They were both boys?"
"Anything else?"
"No. That's it."
"So you said, that one way in which your mother's family wasn't really any different from any of the other families, was that she and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Can you tell me a little more about that?"
"Oh, sure. There was always something going on. Cub Scouts, she was like Den Mother of her older son's Cub Scout Pack. Pack 54. Plus the Comedy Club. Plus I'm pretty sure, she was involved in the kindergarten. She and her husband both. And politics. It was the Sixties."
"Just normal 60's Mom stuff."
"In any case, it's time to forget the past."
