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I think we've had this topic before, but it's been awhile and we have some newbies. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Do you ever imagine what happens to our beloved girls as they grow up? I would love to read stories about them as young women. Of all of them, I think Samantha, Kit, and Felicity are the ones who will have the most dramatic changes in their futures. Kit will be a young woman during WWII. Her brother Charlie will be of ideal drafting age and so will her peers, including any man she might be dating! I do think she will end up being a journalist or perhaps join the women's baseball league- mostly certainly she'll be a fan at the least.
Poor Samantha...brought up in a world of wealth and luxury...she has no idea of what's coming- 2 World Wars and a Great Depression. I wonder how her life would be affected. Her peers would be of drafting age for WWI, and by WWII she'd be old enough to have a son be sent away.
Felicity has all of the Revolutionary War to get through, and she'll be coming of age right when America offically wins.
Any thoughts?
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I always liked, as a kid, the thought of Kirsten growing up and helping slaves cross into the north and giving them food/clothes/whatnot.
It never occured to my ten year old head that not many slaves ran all the way to Minnesoda on foot.
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What about Molly?
She would have to live through the 50's(That's kind of cool), but then in her 30's she would live through the turbulent 60's!
Do you think she would be a flower child or not?
I'm guessing not.
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What an awesome thread! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] I always think of my dolls as perpetually young so I never considered what the future held for their characters in the stories. I will now. Thanks for sharing your thoughts [img]graemlins/idea.gif[/img]
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*laughs* I've always had a scenario in my head where Lissie dresses as a boy and becomes a patriot soldier. I'm not entirely sure where it came from, but I'm such a firm admirer of Deborah Sampson that it probably started when I first learned about her as a child.
...I ought to try writing a bit of that maybe.
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I've always thought that Addy would grow up and be a teacher like she wanted to. I'm not sure if she ever married.
Kirsten, however, would marry John, Mary's brother. He's in a lot of Changes for Kirsten.
I can't wait to hear what others imagine! [img]smile.gif[/img]
<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ March 23, 2006 06:57 PM: Message edited by: Gombe Gal ]</font>
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I think Molly is just a little too old to be a flowerchild. She'd probably be a young mother by the later part of the 60s. She'd definately be affected by the Vietnam War though.
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My mom bought the first two Betsy-Tacy books for my daughters because she loved reading them when she was a little girl. They are such sweet stories with lovely details of small-town life at the turn-of-the-century! And I love the Lois Lenski illustrations which I believe were original to the books.
Back to the original subject: my mother is in fact the exact same age as Molly. She definitely wasn't a hippie or a flower child during the sixties -- she was a stay-at-home mom in the suburbs! I think Molly might have had a life very similar to my mother's: high school, college and then marriage and a family. Maybe when the kids are older she goes back to develop her career some more.
I definitely think Kit would become a full-fledged journalist and career woman, and may have never settled down and had a family.
Great topic!
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I love this topic!
One of my favorite book and movie is National Velvet and I have always imagined a similar scenerio with Felicity and Ben.
It wouldn't happen, it wouldn't be accurate but it is still great fun imagining.
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Talking about the characters growing up, reminded me of a series of books I read many, many, many years ago.
They were written by Maud Hart Lovelace, and the first book was "Betsy Tacy". It was about two girls who formed a friendship, I believe around the turn of the century. Not too sure about the time line. The second book was "Betsy, Tacy, and Tib". The stories started when the girls were all very young, like the AG girls, and continued on through High School, and even marriage. There must have been at least 12-15 books. I remember devouring them, one after another.
I checked Amazon, and at least the first ones have been re-issued in paperback form, very reasonably priced. If you have a daughter, or niece or whoever you buy for, check these books out, or get them for yourself ! I'm going to have to order whatever I can to read them again, and then save them for my grandaughter.
Does anyone else remember reading these?? I'm just a little past 60, so it's been a while.
<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ March 23, 2006 12:29 PM: Message edited by: AG Seamstress ]</font>
