There was little knowledge about this condition, which can lead to drug addiction in the child. : 'But later, when I was nineteen and pregnant, my mother and I got rip-roaring drunk one afternoon.' Tragically, this was the dark ages for fetal alcohol syndrome, as well. Blandings Builds his Dream House (a 1948 movie starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas)? : The poems of Don Blanding, including 'Vagabond House.' Does this tie into Mr. : 'From his teenage years, Daddy always wore hand-painted glass eyes to cover the ravaged scar tissue left when he lost his sight as a child.' On page 28, she says his sight began to fail almost from the time of his birth on an Idaho farm in 1911. The story, however, appears to be legend, since Richard's jailers were proud of holding him. He then sent for help to free his king.' There was such a troubadour: Jean 'Blondel' de Nesle, a French trouvère. : 'Blondel, Richard the Lionheart's troubadour, saved his master's life by hunting out all the prisons where he might be kept and singing a song outside the castle walls until he heard Richard's response. Both he and Lezchuk had radio shows in Denver back in the day. Blind since childhood, he got around better than some sighted people. The same goes for her father, Chuck Collins, who she describes lovingly in the book. Pages 22-23: Lingo the Drifter (Paul Lezchuk) This character deserves to be better known IMO. Elton Hayes played the part of the minstrel, and sang the song that so grabbed Judy's attention: 'The Gypsy Rover.' 'Barbara Allen' was on that album, along with 'Shenandoah' and 'Black is the Color.' Before I ever heard of Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger, Jo Stafford and Elton Hayes, the singer in the movie, put me in touch with the beauty and the wonder of folk music.' The movie was The Black Knight, a 1954 Arthurian adventure starring Alan Ladd. In fact, the album was part of a folk music revival that was taking hold around the country. : 'In 1950, long before the advent of the 'crossover' phenomenon, Stafford made the album American Folk Songs at the height of her popular success. These were still the dark ages for mental health issues.' There was no counseling, no therapy, no group that I might go to, no suicide or grief counselor who would be sent for. (They are Mike, David, Denver John, and Holly Ann.) She writes, 'Of course, no one talked to me about what I had done, not directly. But she never mentions her siblings' reactions. : Her suicide attempt, at age 14 (?), caused her parents considerable angst.

Quotations from the book are shown in blue. But there are a few omissions and puzzling passages, and some things that are noteworthy. In fact I noted only one possible error, and that turned out to be correct. Some notes on the contents of Judy Collins's third memoirĪs I mentioned, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is admirably free of grammatical errors.

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