Amalia's Story, Chapter Thirty-Seven
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #28:
"Drawing in"
Love At All Ages!
by Angela Thirkell (1959)
https://angelathirkellsociety.org/writings/book-summaries/
Flashback to 1959 - A Timeline of Life in America
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In this, the last but one of Thirkell’s books, there is a certain “drawing in.”
As usual, not much happens, however, most of the discussion repeatedly refers back to previous characters and events without advancing the themes.
The ages of the third generation of children have by this time become so muddled that we have Lavinia Merton, age 16, joining the grown-ups for a dinner party while her cousins, 18 and 16 are practically relegated to the nursery.
Having, for some time now, run out of young marriageables, Thirkell arranges for one between the Rev. Oriel (another of our perennial bachelors) and Lady Gwendolyn Harcourt (sister-in-law to Edith Graham); “after a gentle attachment of some standing; it was highly improbable that they would be troubled by children.”
But not to worry, the budding romance between Lavinia Merton and Lord Ludo of Pomfret Tower is certain to reach a satisfactory conclusion and we are grateful, as always, that Thirkell, like Mrs. Morland, continues to write “the same book.”
= Louis Jacobucci
"Suzanne Howes Married At Barnstable"
Barnstable Patriot, September 02, 1965
http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/sturgis/sharedview.article.aspx?href=BAR%2F1965%2F09%2F02&id=Ar01011&sk=4043DE3D&viewMode=text
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Jacobucci and sons Mark and Andrew have returned to their Brenzer Lane home from a week's camping at White Lake State Park in Ossipee, N.H.
= Velveteen Andrews
🔟SongsRadioLIVE
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Collin Rugg
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End Wokeness
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Doris Lessing Book Summary
"A privileged background"
Retreat to Innocence!
by Doris Lessing (1959)
AI Answer:
"Retreat to Innocence by Doris Lessing is a story about a young woman named Julia who has an affair with a middle-aged Czech refugee named Jan after meeting him in a London café. Julia is from a privileged background and is bored with her life, but she initially dismisses the idea of being attracted to Jan. However, she later finds herself unable to forget him."
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= Harriet McCurdy Cameron Hall Jacobucci
"Homemaker Service Holds Graduation"
Barnstable Patriot, December 24, 1970
http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/sturgis/sharedview.article.aspx?href=BAR%2F1970%2F12%2F24&id=Ar00608&sk=BE43273C&viewMode=text
Cape Cod Homemaker Service held graduation exercises in Barnstable Dec. 17 for a new class of homemakers who have completed the fall training course.
Mrs. Louise Hassett, R.M. of the Cape Cod Hospital School on Nursing related some of the typical needs of the older client. Mrs. James Taylor of Centerville, president of the board of directors, gave the graduates their letter of certification.
The following people are now qualified. Mrs. Mary V. Murray of West Yarmouth, Mrs. Barbara Ryder of Dennisport, Mrs. Margaret Tobey of Cummaquid, Mrs. Eileen Ward of South Yarmouth, Mrs. Alice Leavitt of Sagamore Beach, Mrs. Sybil Taylor of Mashpee, and Mrs. Eileen Wildes of Dennis.
Since its start six years ago the demand for homemakers has steadily increased. During this period the people served have come from all 15 towns from Provincetown to Falmouth.
The training courses equip a group of women to provide the services on referral through the central office in Hyannis. To continue meeting the community need, new homemaker applicants are always welcome to call Executive Director Mrs. Harriet Hall for an interview.
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."
