my family invented it!<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, my mother pulled out some scrapbooks her mother had put together and there was a little family tree written by grandmother Anna Leroi Waterman–going back to our first forbears in the U.S.: John Alden & Priscilla Mullins.<\/p>\n
Not that my mother really cares; she wanted to show me the photos, including her mother and two sisters working as waitresses in a resort on Lake George in the summer of 1926.<\/p>\n
It was my mother’s great-aunt Blanche Allyn who enrolled me in the Mayflower Club when I was ultra wee. And guess what: Blanche was my grandfather Waterman’s aunt. Both of my mother’s parents were Mayflower spawn.<\/p>\n
My brother has decided that for this Thanksgiving we should delve deep into the Puritan question–he’s planned something of an event along those lines.<\/p>\n
But my question is: why isn’t my mother’s side rich <\/em>WASPs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" my family invented it! Over the weekend, my mother pulled out some scrapbooks her mother had put together and there was a little family tree written by grandmother Anna Leroi Waterman–going back to our first forbears in the U.S.: John … Continue reading