tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386591112753293896.post1563009777299876327..comments2024-01-17T16:29:35.546-05:00Comments on Through the Hourglass: QueenieClaudia Keenanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17302390896762308490noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386591112753293896.post-64247631411136101442016-08-31T08:47:44.024-04:002016-08-31T08:47:44.024-04:00Queenie left a tantalizing trail. Email me at clau...Queenie left a tantalizing trail. Email me at claudiajkeenan@gmail.com and we can share more information and questions.Claudia Keenanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17302390896762308490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386591112753293896.post-68691987344727560892016-08-31T06:42:00.905-04:002016-08-31T06:42:00.905-04:00I just found you. I need to know more. I also foll...I just found you. I need to know more. I also followed this story this far, to Southern France. Where to begin? It starts in Santa Barbara...<br />When she left roadstering for a horse-job at Del Monte, it seems she met a British sailmaking baron with cattle interests in the United States, as her British arrival papers show her destined to visit him, a man who had been at Del Monte years before. When in Paris, she was guiding ladies through the Bois de Boulogne, before fleeing to Nice, where she died of an unknown illness, and her neighbors received her radio and shoes. John Walcott was not her father, but I don't think she ever knew that. WDHollistergaviotahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09260880044795263308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386591112753293896.post-71817725554824127632015-11-12T15:09:51.611-05:002015-11-12T15:09:51.611-05:00I like imagining her "stay" at the Irvin...I like imagining her "stay" at the Irving Institute. Restless in class but smarter than the teachers, getting in the other girls in trouble, and finally pretending to be sick one day only to slip out to explore San Francisco, quite unapologetically unchaperoned.<br />That would have been the final straw, no doubt.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173711110500689117noreply@blogger.com