Lucy Glaser Merritt - July 8, 1991
Children II
[interruption in interview]
They, they probably will know nothing. Yeah. Becausethat daughter isn't the one who is particularly interested. And I, I don'tthink their background will have much of a message for them. For them, it is sofar removed from me. They're in Chicago. If they will be old enough, if I'mstill alive, they're right now three and two, that I will tell 'em about it.But otherwise no one else would.
Maybe they'll learnabout it in school.
Yeah, they may hear about it at school, but itwouldn't quite have the personal touch or maybe it will because they would knowabout me.
Maybe they'll listen tothis tape.
[laughs] Sure. Those kids don't listen to anything.
Well, not at three andtwo. But.
No.
later.
No, they don't sit down a minute. They're tooyoung. Although I have memories of my grandmother and I was four when she died.I have some very clear memories of that place. It was so, so primitive. You hada, a well that you wound up.
In Galicia.
Yes. And uh, in this-that little village, everybodyknew everyone. Not by my name, but I was so and so's grandchild. That's howthey identified me. It was a very different type of life where everyone kneweveryone.
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