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Apropos of nothing except the mention of Bird, I taught Doris Parker, Bird's wife (one of them,) and Lorraine Gillespie, Dizzy's wife, how to set up floor looms they'd bought, wind a warp, dress the loom, weave. The lessons were given in Dizzy's house. It was very interesting. Lorraine hid the vacuum cleaner from Dizzy because when he came home he would play with it. He was interested in suction. She wanted to open open a small home for orphan babies, having had no children of her own and being a very loving person, but their lawyer wouldn't allow it, saying, "First we have to take care of the Gillespie's." She wasn't young, and I knew if she couldn't do it then, it would never happen, and felt bad for her; that would have been "taking care of" her. I was a textile designer (for power looms) at the time and someone had given my name to them. |
