August 20 2005 - An Interview with Mary Bridgeman Zehnder

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1.0 Interview Setup August 20, 2005

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1.1 Veranda and Tea Set, Wonder Woman, Stone Steps, Elm Tree

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1.2 Riverside Yacht Club, Tide, Birds, Telescope Seagrass, Adjacent Homes, Neighborhood

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1.3 Nini's Home, 51 Carriglea Drive, Hill, Seawall, Seagrass, Bird Sounds

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1.4 Robyn's Memory Box

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2.0 Nini, Tinkle

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2.1 Seagull Sounds, Bird Sounds, 51 Carriglea Drive

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2.2 Nini Sings, That's Why the Lady is a Tramp, Ella Fitzgerald, Music

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2.3 Nini Sings, Music, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, The Man I Love

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2.4 Music, Mabel Lainhart Parmelee, Jazz, Nini's Mother, Riverside Yacht Club

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3.0 Robyn Williams Heeks, Introduction

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3.1 Birth, Cleveland OH, Walter Adams Bridgeman, Nini's Father, Chemistry, Death, England, Bridgemans, Newburgh NY, Nini's Grandparents

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3.2 Nini's Mother, Mabel Lainhart Parmelee, Mary S Lainhart, Alburn Worthington Parmlee, Ward Belmont, Smith College, Music

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3.3 Nini's Father, Van Zandt Williams Sr., Newburgh NY, New York City, Baseball, Spied, 1918 Flu Epidemic, WWI, WWII, Dye Stuffs, Owego NY, Wilbur White, Wilbur White Chemical Company

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3.4 EB White's Dog, Nini's Father, Walter Adams Bridgeman

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3.5 Nini's Gandmother, Owego NY, Mary S. Lainhart

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3.6 Nini's Mother, Mabel Lainhart Parmelee, Piano Lessons, Ukulele

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3.7 Church, Religion, Congregational Church, God, Difficult Child, Only Child

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3.8 Pregnancy, Patricia, Blue Baby, Owego NY, Binghamton NY, Moving Pictures, Death, Mabel Lainhart Parmelee

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4.0 Smoking, Adelphia Sorority, Smith College, Yale, Van Zandt Williams Jr., Ashtray Bucket

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4.1 Smith College, House Parties, Cornell, Dancing, Fraternity Houses

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4.2 Nini Sings, Far Above Cayuga's Waters, Cornell, Ithaca NY, Ithaca Gorge, Suspension Bridge, Daring

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4.3 Dating, First Kiss, Rumble Seat, Highschool, Many Boys, Racy Cars, Will Saint Clare, Cars, Driving, Police

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5.0 Great Depression, Factory, WWII, WI, Gasoline Coupons, Ridgefield NY, Van Zant Williams Sr.

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5.1 Van Zandt Williams Sr., Atomic Bomb, Manhattan Project, US Government Award, Hiroshima

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6.0 Teenage Years, Dancing, Dreams, Dance Clubs, Drinking, Ballroom Dancing, Milton Rider, Smoking

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6.1 Boyfriends, Playmates, Drinking, Best Friend, Jimmy Patton, Girl's Camp, Christmas Tree, Driving, Pompelli's Glenn, Swimming, Mischief, Getting in Trouble,

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6.2 Television, Movies, Allowance, Social Class, Elites, Owego NY, Main Street

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6.3 Binghamton NY, Endicott NY, Johnson City NY, Endicott Shoes, Bests, Factory, Dance Pavilion, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey

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6.4 Prohibition, Drinking, Smith College, Betty Ripley, Rawharr's, Scotch and Water, Sloe Gin,

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6.5 Binghamton NY, Hotel, Jimmy Patton, Chicken Chow Mein, Death, Ed Rumple, Graduation, Old Greenwich CT, WWII,

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7.0 Television, Old Greenwich CT,

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7.1 Old Greenwich CT, Van Zandt Williams Jr., Richard Williams, Birth, Tree House

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8.0 Riverside Yacht Club, Trap Shooting,

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8.1 Smith College, Reunions, House Mother, Piano, Bridge, Afternoon Tea, Martha Wilson House, Smith Quadrangle, Tower Room, Franny Dalton, Tiny Clamerick, Class of 1937, Smoking, Mischief

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8.2 Smith College, Dating, Dorothy Simpson, Newton MA, Chauffeur Walter, Cars, North Hampton MA, Rawharr's, Alice Moore, Calvin Coolidge, Drinking

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8.3 Rawharr's, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Nini Sings, Drinking

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8.4 Smith College, Art, Art History, Major, Mary S. Lainhart, Painting, Owego NY,

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8.5 College Summer, Owego NY, Dating, Golf

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9.0 51 Carriglea, Albums, Paper, Treasure Hunting, Van Zant Williams Jr., Chubby Babies, Richard Williams

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10.0 Summertime, Cabin, Picnic Table, Parties, Country Club, Grandmother's Farm, Nini's Grandmother, Mary S. Lainhardt, Lainhardt Farm, Driving

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10.1 Smith, Philadelphia PA, Walter Adams Bridgeman, Walter White Chemical Company, Johnson's Wax, Racine WI, First Job, Teaching, Ardmore PA

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10.2 New York City, Steven Rockefeller, Eleanor Ellis, Nelson Rockefeller, Yard School, Little Heller, Joansie, Marriage, Grammercy Park Hotel, Martha's Vineyard, Honeymoon, Nicknames

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10.3 Van Zandt Sr., Martha's Vineyard, Ben Darling, Auntie, Anti-Semitism, Uncle Mack, To The Men Are Born, Brown University, Dick Messenger, Hollywood

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10.4 Van Zandt Williams Sr., Dick Messenger, Brown University, Philadelphia PA, WWII, Dating,

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10.5 Racine WI, Johnson's Wax, Frank Lloyd Wright, Herb Johnson, Architecture,

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11.0 Sticky Buns, Van Zandt Sr., Van Zandt Sr.'s Parents, Death, Grandad, Bees, Rhode Island, Anne Williams, Arthur Williams, Frances, Williams Family Tree

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11.1 Bridgeman Family Bible, Parmelee, Lainhart, Zehnder, Paintings, Photographs

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12.0 Clambake, Van Zandt Williams Jr., Richard Williams, Baby Nurse, Van Zandt Williams Sr., Perkin-Elmer, Optical Society of America, Baby Pictures, Bridgeport Engineering Institute, Complete Angler

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12.1 Van Zandt Jr., Europe, Stationary, Slipshod Manor, Connie Bauman, Barbara Corelga, Carolyn Donna Watts, Ann Barbara Zellner, Volkswagen

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12.2 Imperial Hotel, Owego Country Club, Photographs, Fresh Air Kids

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12.3 Grandad, Photographs, Bees, Farm, 40 Center Drive, Old Greenwich CT, Tree House, Milk Delivery, Playroom Fight, Ricky Niser, Boxing Match, Amy Stark, Jenann, Mrs. Menegan, Richard Williams, Gaga

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12.4 Wilbur White Chemical Company, Flu Epidemic, Cleveland OH, Dye Stuffs, EB White's Dog, Owego NY, Frances, Tommy Fitzgibbons

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