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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: T L Comiskey who wrote (9883)	11/29/2002 11:32:18 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 89467

I doubt it very seriously. She was just a pretty cool, strong woman who hung with a younger crowd. I lived with her my first semester of college, cuz I couldn't get in the dorms, and used to see her at least every other week throughout school. She was probably the 3rd person in the country to be against the war, and it took her 3 years (and we always talked about it every time we got together) to convince me she was right. She went to a lot of the peace marches in Oakland / Berkeley. She was always a rebel; divorced my grandfather in about '21, when those things were NEVER,EVER done, and moved to Petaluma, and did the chicken ranching bit. After remarrying, she temporarily left my step-grandfather (I don't know what the term should be; it wasn't a separation in the legal or emotional sense) to go to nursing school in SF. Scandalous; the women were supposed to stay home and wash eggs. I suspect she was at least socialist by inclination. Her bro (and one sister, too) also were chicken farmers. At one point, he had to hide out for a few days because a group was trying to tar and feather a few select folks. I had always heard, and re-confirmed this with Mom the other day, that "they" thought he was a commie. However, I just read about a play based on that incident which said it was because a group of Jewish chicken farmers were trying to help out the migrant apple pickers, and it was the apple growers who went after them. I'll try to find the article and see what it says. I don't think she ever saw the Light, but her doors of perception were pretty damn clear. Don't know what this means, but the 3 sibs I mentioned all moved to Calif. from NYC and raised chickens, and lived to their mid 90's. I don't think any of the rest of their sibs, who all lived in NYC, lived past 70. Rat