The story, as told to Cindy and Peter by Mimi (supported by ticket stubs and notes from both Mimi and Willy) is as follows.
Willy attended a meeting with the Controlled Thermonuclear Research Advisory Committee in Los Alamos, New Mexico in early August, 1966. His train ticket shows that he travelled from Pasadena through Lamy to Santa Fe on August 4th and 5th and back on August 6th and 7th.
I don’t remember when Mimi first talked about skiing, but I was very young. She had great stories to tell about her adventures studying and traveling in Europe on the GI Bill after her time in the WAC in New Guinea. Chamonix and Zermatt were her favorites but she skied in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy. On occasion, she would start in one country and ski down in the alps into a different country and have to take the train back across the border. As I discovered later, she became quite an accomplished skier.
Mimi’s and Nina’s dog, Gusto, was named for Gustavus Adolphus the Great (Gustavus Adolphus Magnus) who was King of Sweden from 1611 through 1632. He (Gustavus Adolphus, not Gusto) founded Sweden as a major power during the 30 Years War and was known as The Lion of the North and Defender of the Faith for his defense of Protestant countries.
Mimi was a regular part of our family’s Saturday trips to the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. Participants were usually Nina, Mimi, Peter, Joan, and Margaret.
This is the story of how Mimi and Nina arrived in New York City and relocated in Tarrytown, as told by Mimi to Cindy and Peter.