Nana Biography

And this was important to them. And when the Kentucky Derby or the Keenland races or any of these things, people came from the East, great rich Easterners, who owned a lot of land and property in Kentucky, and all that. And we all knew these people and entertained them at home, and all of my family was not in that class of riches, they associated with rich people. And I think my mother was a little impressed by all that, but she was a very attractive woman, and everybody liked her and all that. And she was always saying to me, “you know, it’s just as easy to marry Rich man “. 

And she tried very hard to have me meet the right people. I was very rebellious about that. I went out with lots of boys that were very, very poor. I’m sure that scared her to death. I came home and told her that was going to be married, and she was marvelous, she said, “oh and where would you be living?” She just handled it so well, she never showed any – she said, “he seems like a nice boy. “I knew she couldn’t bear him, and I had only done it to make her worried. So, being around the right sort was important, I did learn, good manners, and I did learn social ways and all of this with the school, and I appreciate that. I never had… I was never deprived of anything. I don’t know whether that’s good or bad, I guess it doesn’t matter.

You at the time or is it looking back now? 

Oh, I just felt that life was just a big bowl of cherries, and I had no care in mind, I had no feeling that I wanted to be anything except, I would get – I assumed I would get married someday, and keep house, and having children was something you thought about, but you didn’t really narrow it in on having some children. I didn’t really care about that.

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