Here is what I have of the first chapter.
The story of Lillian Virginia Mountweazel begins at her birth, as all stories do…. Well, technically, her story begins at conception, involving scandalous affairs with her parents jumping behind the bushes doing goodness knows what*. Aside from these troubling beginnings, her parents were able to rejoice on June 17th, 1942, for that day brought forth the life of their seventh child and first daughter, whom they named Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, the child of Virginia Anderson-Mountweazel and Vincent F. Mountweazel.
Being the ‘40s, Lillian was not conceived nor born in a hospital that is typical of modern America. No, instead Lillian was born in a tiny home in rural Bangs, Ohio, with her parents, six brothers, and other relatives all aside her. Recent research has shown that the house has since been demolished, and in fact the town Bangs, Ohio has become the much larger city now known as Cleveland.
Despite the elaborate research conducted by Ohioan biography investigation companies, the early life of Mountweazel is largely unbeknownst to us. However, thorough research has revealed facts about Mountweazel’s childhood days that were not revealed to us by the New Columbia Encyclopedia.
Firstly, it has been discovered that Mountweazel’s mother Virginia, from whom Lillian Mountweazel had retrieved her middle name, was adamant on teaching her only daughter the elusive art of piano.
*I actually do know what, but that is beyond the scope of this message.
Dec 27, 2020
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AureliusReyes
Mountweazel, Lillian Virginia, 1942-1973, American photographer, b. Bangs, Ohio. Turning from fountain design to photography in 1963, Mountweazel produced her celebrated portraits of the South Sierra Miwok in 1964. She was awarded government grants to make a series of photo-essays of unusual subject matter, including New York City buses, the cemeteries of Paris and rural American mailboxes. The last group was exhibited extensively abroad and published as Flags Up! (1972) Mountweazel died at 31 in an explosion while on assignment for Combustibles magazine.[iii]
Dec 27, 2020
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AureliusReyes
