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posted 28 September 2019 11:39 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitford_family

Question:
Do you have a favorite Mitford sister?

Choices:
Diana
Jessica
Unity
Nancy
Deborah
Pamela

 
 
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posted 29 September 2019 05:10 AMHide Post
I forget which is which. So many were fascinating. Even the Nazis.


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posted 08 November 2019 10:06 PMHide Post
Jessica FTW. Wink
 
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posted 08 November 2019 10:56 PMHide Post
I read the Wiki and I kind of get it, but what about them do you find interesting?

They strike me as Kardashians with political views.


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posted 09 November 2019 12:21 AMHide Post
Did you know there's a piano technician in the Mitford family? Ben Treuhaft was my tuner in the SF bay area, and we both later moved to NY, where Ben ran Underwater Piano Tuning (and massage parlor). He founded Send a Piana to Havana, arranging donations of instruments to Cuba, and sending US techs to maintain them (the Tuners' Brigade). He would come to my place to tune by bringing his bag of supplies on a tricycle over on the ferry.

He maintained pianos for the music department at NYU.

I have a Send a Piana to Havana T-shirt. I swear.

Lefties have more interesting stories.

Last I heard, he now lives in Edinboro, Scotland. At one time he lived in a tent on the beach there.

There's a video about him up on YouTube somewhere. Colorful guy.


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posted 09 November 2019 03:58 AMHide Post
Sounds like quite a family.


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posted 09 November 2019 06:56 AMHide Post
Um...not the Nazi. Or were there Nazis?


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posted 09 November 2019 11:49 AMHide Post
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posted 10 November 2019 06:42 AMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Steve Miller:
I read the Wiki and I kind of get it, but what about them do you find interesting?

They strike me as Kardashians with political views.


I hadn’t really thought of them that way but they really were the Kardashians of the early 20th century.


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posted 10 November 2019 09:57 AMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Steve Miller:
They strike me as Kardashians with political views.


ROTFLMAO


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Short documentary on Ben Treuhaft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NELInW2coj4

Longer documentary (50 min.) on his piano mission in Cuba:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5YVHtXo1Xw


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I find Jessica Mitford interesting because she was a rebel. She rebeled againt the political views of very many in the English upper classes. It can be said many them had fascist views (e.g. Jessica's parents) or were actually fascists (examples too numerous to mention).

She lived her life according to her principles and on her own terms. Her life (and the lives of her sisters) exemplified the tensions and conflicts of the lead up to WWII, and its aftermath. Smiler

Besides, how can you not like an English aristocrat who became an American citizen during WWII and moved to Oakland? Wink
 
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