tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post7402710860854447597..comments2023-12-31T20:43:08.499-05:00Comments on THE STILETTO GANG: I'M LIVING IN THE ROARING TWENTIESUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-33629833447738148712016-04-22T15:18:07.737-04:002016-04-22T15:18:07.737-04:00Hi, Kimber. Yes, I am having fun writing about thi...Hi, Kimber. Yes, I am having fun writing about this new era, new for me. I don't have any (or not much) autobiographical "skin in the game," as I did when writing about the sixties (and thinking about my own grandmothers' lives back then is not the same thing as having lived it all myself). I feel like a moral weight-- of getting things JUST RIGHT for what I wanted to achieve--has lifted off my shoulders. That is a great relief. So now I am hoping that when I return to writing about the late sixties that I will be used to writing with more freedom and less angst. kkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02296326994943617709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-59124119614034838802016-04-22T15:15:03.705-04:002016-04-22T15:15:03.705-04:00All great questions, Peggy. I'm going to have ...All great questions, Peggy. I'm going to have my 23-year-old sleuth (b. 1900) ask her aunt about these things. But Prohibition will play a bigger part in the plot. My guess is that lots of married women went along with their spouses' voting choices. I remember back decades when my parents' married friends would talk about how their votes cancelled each other out. kkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02296326994943617709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-63844887154330729602016-04-22T15:12:02.323-04:002016-04-22T15:12:02.323-04:00Thanks so much, Susan! I will look up the museum p...Thanks so much, Susan! I will look up the museum page...and get in touch with you about your sister also. Many thanks!!kkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02296326994943617709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-54477433234357092812016-04-21T12:18:21.987-04:002016-04-21T12:18:21.987-04:00My grandmothers were born in the late 19th century...My grandmothers were born in the late 19th century, at a time when women in America did not have the vote. They were white. I wonder what it was like to suddenly have it. Did they vote for whomever their husbands voted for? What did they think of suddenly having a say in things? And what did they think about non-white citizens not having a vote?Peggy Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797917246312547808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-79220452228702431362016-04-21T11:17:59.769-04:002016-04-21T11:17:59.769-04:00Kay, you might contact my sister at the Depot Muse...Kay, you might contact my sister at the Depot Museum in Elgin. She has so much info on what was going on in Elgin when at different periods that she might help you with research. She's already done enough research to set a novel in a small Texas town. At different periods in the past. FLet me know if you want her contact information . Or you can just look up th FB site for Elgin Depot Museum. Ann is a born researcher. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00045907821014086272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-65928006330390814852016-04-20T20:03:29.122-04:002016-04-20T20:03:29.122-04:00How fun to write in that era. I've been toying...How fun to write in that era. I've been toying with it myself, though across the pond. I believe I have settled on a time a bit earlier though, 1895. The research alone is so fun. Kimberly Jaynehttp://www.readkimberly.comnoreply@blogger.com