To appreciate the next episode, it helps to recall who Lyndie always was: An outrageous woman (if not yet “older”). She and Cal left the New York tenement with their toddler daughter and returned to California. Cal got jobs in construction, but there was never regular employment, let alone a career. After 4 years there,ContinueContinue reading “7. Abandoned Penniless in Europe: A Dream Come True?”
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6. The Tenement Year
A few years later, newly married to her high school sweetheart and with an infant in tow, Lyndie took off on her next great road trip. They were “escaping” from Stanford University, where her husband had learned that college was not for him, and from what she calls an “over-controlling family.” Carroll (“Cal”) Duff wasContinueContinue reading “6. The Tenement Year”
5. Skylights and Bombs, Nudes and Murders
Bit by bit, in emails, Lyndie shares fragments of the “every-which-way jumble of recollection” that suddenly floods in unbidden, “in full Technicolor,” after I have asked about something else. “Do you know I can draw or describe every detail of the rental house on 26th St. we lived in till 1945? The upstairs bath had green walls,ContinueContinue reading “5. Skylights and Bombs, Nudes and Murders”
Lyndie's Journey 