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Dorothea Graham Jensen
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A Buss from Lafayette
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Author Insight
Leaving Out William Weeks's Warts
Major William Weeks was a real person whom I found in the history of my town (where I set this story). He had known Lafayette during the Revolution when he was Washington's aide-de-camp. He did have the honor of sitting next to the Nation's Guest at the dinner on the New Hampshire State House grounds on June 22, 1825. There was one thing Major Weeks did that I found in the town history which I did NOT include in BUSS, however. Here it is: ". . .some neighbors, who were at work on the road, on his return, that he had been down to the dinner, and had sat at the right hand of Lafayette; that it was not only an honor to them, but an honor to the town to have such a man in it as he was."(Lord, Charles Chase, Life and times in Hopkinton, N.H) This seemed such a egotistical statement, I just couldn't put it into my book. On the other hand, I like to think that Major Weeks had perhaps imbibed too much alcohol at the Lafayette celebration and thus had blurted out something he normally would NOT have said! I guess we'll never know. : )
Book Excerpt
A Buss from Lafayette
When I was only halfway up, however, she called to me from the bottom of the stairs, with Dickon’s father, Major William Weeks, just behind her.
Major Weeks was much older than my own father, as Dickon was nearly at the tail end of the major’s string of thirteen children. Still, he was of fine address and quite handsome for a man of his age. It occurred to me that Dickon looked very much like his father, except for the white hair, of course. He certainly matched him in height.
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