Travels of Townsend Brown
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:11 pm
All those following this interesting trail.
You might know by now that I am a retired school teacher and got interested in the story of Townsend Brown when the fact came to my attention that his daughter Linda had attended 48 different schools in her educational career. That just entirely blew me away. So I fired off a couple of sort of rude questions to Paul (What kind of grades could she possibly have gotten?, how did she ever graduate? How could she have gone on to college ?.. anywhere.)
Anyway he answered patiently that Linda had managed to become a very good student. Even commenting on the quality of different schools and I had to begrudgingly give her that. The lady has to have become an expert in the educational system of the United States.
And in all of this and my growing interest in the story of Townsend Brown himself, I thought ... they moved so much ... exactly WHERE did they move. Now I know that there would be probably really good reason for each of these moves (my family was involved in the "intelligence field" with my Dad until my parents divorced, so I know something about moving suddenly and quickly and not always knowing where we were going. I have sensed that Linda Brown went through much the same experience.) But WHERE.
So I am opening this "pool" to ask others out there to add their knowledge of the "travels of Townsend Brown".
Just from the last couple of chapters I know that he spent time in the suburbs of Philadelphia in 1964. (Linda apparently spent her last two years at Great Valley High School ... been there for a conference once. good school) Then they moved to Florida?
In 1967 (Chapter 4 "How Many Generals does it Take?") the Brown family is living in Santa Monica California... so they obviously didn't stay in Florida long. In the Prologue (Every Cabbie in Catalina) they are living on Catalina Island in 1985.
So ... darned ... thats alot of moves right there and I have a feeling I don't even have a notion of the number of times (as Paul wrote) Josephine took that little green teapot from the mantle and packed it. Anybody care to try to keep score? And those are the moves. Where did he travel for the fun of it? Mark
You might know by now that I am a retired school teacher and got interested in the story of Townsend Brown when the fact came to my attention that his daughter Linda had attended 48 different schools in her educational career. That just entirely blew me away. So I fired off a couple of sort of rude questions to Paul (What kind of grades could she possibly have gotten?, how did she ever graduate? How could she have gone on to college ?.. anywhere.)
Anyway he answered patiently that Linda had managed to become a very good student. Even commenting on the quality of different schools and I had to begrudgingly give her that. The lady has to have become an expert in the educational system of the United States.
And in all of this and my growing interest in the story of Townsend Brown himself, I thought ... they moved so much ... exactly WHERE did they move. Now I know that there would be probably really good reason for each of these moves (my family was involved in the "intelligence field" with my Dad until my parents divorced, so I know something about moving suddenly and quickly and not always knowing where we were going. I have sensed that Linda Brown went through much the same experience.) But WHERE.
So I am opening this "pool" to ask others out there to add their knowledge of the "travels of Townsend Brown".
Just from the last couple of chapters I know that he spent time in the suburbs of Philadelphia in 1964. (Linda apparently spent her last two years at Great Valley High School ... been there for a conference once. good school) Then they moved to Florida?
In 1967 (Chapter 4 "How Many Generals does it Take?") the Brown family is living in Santa Monica California... so they obviously didn't stay in Florida long. In the Prologue (Every Cabbie in Catalina) they are living on Catalina Island in 1985.
So ... darned ... thats alot of moves right there and I have a feeling I don't even have a notion of the number of times (as Paul wrote) Josephine took that little green teapot from the mantle and packed it. Anybody care to try to keep score? And those are the moves. Where did he travel for the fun of it? Mark