Kay Bailey Hutchison as a child
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The authors also quirky discovered details about these Texan childhoods. Some subjects talked about their favorite toys, others described instances in which they got in trouble and talked about how they were punished. The conversations were intimate and candid. They talked to people like World War II Veteran Richard Overton to former first lady Lady Byrd Johnson.
One fascinating thing about the book is how different the lives of some people were, even though they were born around the same time and even though they were born and raised in Texas. Case in point, the childhood stories of former U.S. Ambassador, U.S. Senator and state lawmaker Kay Bailey Hutchison, and the experiences of Dr. Ruth Simmons, who was the first Black president of an Ivy League school, Brown University.
In the book, Hutchison talks about how her great-great-grandfather signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Simmons talks about her great-grandmother who was an enslaved person.
Hutchison talks about how she and all her friends had Toni dolls.
“My favorite thing that [Hutchison] says is they had clothes for them, and somebody even made them nightgowns so the dolls could go to sleep,” Finklea Hecker said.
Growing up during the same era, Simmons didn’t have dolls. In fact, she says that’s one thing she and her sisters often talk about – how they never had toys.
So, what about the authors’ childhoods? Did anything happen that was especially memorable, maybe something that a lot of modern-day Texans might find surprising?
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