Now here is a lady.
Posted: July 14, 2014 Filed under: America Since 1945, music Leave a comment
Kate McGarrigle.
Her ex-father-in-law was Loudon Wainwright, Jr.:
Wainwright joined the staff of Life magazine and worked in a variety of positions over the years, including covering the Mercury astronauts. He and John Glenn listened to the inauguration speech of John F. Kennedy while riding in Glenn’s car in 1961.
John and Mrs. Glenn:
(from Lily Koppel’s extremely rad blog for her book for her (presumably) rad book The Astronaut Wives Club:
Buying that immediately. Check out the postcard she has up there now.
Loudon’s son and Kate’s ex of course is Loudon III:
The old Australian Crawl.
Happy Bastille Day!
In his later years [Jean-Pierre] Houël published two illustrated treatises on elephants. Drawings of other animals suggest he was preparing to publish further zoological works; however, his death at the age of seventy-eight cut short his plans.
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