A Moment in Time
I never knew Aunt Marion, as she died 5 years before I was born. My information comes from letters, photographs and stories passed down through our parents.
The inspiration for making a figure of Aunt Marion was finding her typed instructions for knitting Single Heel Service Socks. The old typewriter she used had keys missing, but you could still follow the instructions.
Marion was the first in the Boothman family to go to college. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1922 and Columbia University School of Library Service in 1924. She was assistant secretary of the New Hampshire Public Library Commission in Concord, and until 1941 was involved with the Department of History at UNH. Marion seemed to enjoy travel, and wrote copious letters home.
One of her many contributions to the war effort during World War II was to knit socks for the service men. She typed out the directions and passed them along to everyone she knew in hopes of providing men with warm socks.
Marion worried that her husband Win would not be warm enough while skiing through the Alps in search of the enemy as a member of the 10th Mountain
Division.
The inspiration for making a figure of Aunt Marion was finding her typed instructions for knitting Single Heel Service Socks. The old typewriter she used had keys missing, but you could still follow the instructions.
Marion was the first in the Boothman family to go to college. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1922 and Columbia University School of Library Service in 1924. She was assistant secretary of the New Hampshire Public Library Commission in Concord, and until 1941 was involved with the Department of History at UNH. Marion seemed to enjoy travel, and wrote copious letters home.
One of her many contributions to the war effort during World War II was to knit socks for the service men. She typed out the directions and passed them along to everyone she knew in hopes of providing men with warm socks.
Marion worried that her husband Win would not be warm enough while skiing through the Alps in search of the enemy as a member of the 10th Mountain
Division.