George who only spoke Russian was tutored in English by grandmother Ethel Widler. The family decided to change their primary language to English so George would have a easier time adjusting to the Cathedral School. He played with the Aracapana statue that is the subject of a fictionalized family history, 'If a Family Heirloom Could Tell All.'
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Interesting!!!!!
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
Thank you anonymous and Kay. I am hoping someone could tell me if well groomed ladies of a certain age in Shanghai around 1914 would have died their hair with henna. I also wonder if my great grandmother Ethel learned her English in England as a school girl and then worked as a nurse in the Red Cross in Egypt before settling in Shanghai.
I hope to do ksome reality checks to make the story as accurate as I can.
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