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get this, the rest of the owners have· to sign, and Boo's
family and my family are all for it, but he controls his
side of the family, and there's nothing we can do. It has
to be 100%, so I've got to bring him around.
I just can't believe that he won't do it.

CT: What is his reason when youyou speak about it?

SRL: He doesn't want to talk about it. He'll talk about anything
else, but he just doesn't want to talk about this. But -he
hasn't heard this new proposal. I have to go up and talk
with Christy Madden, and see if this is a viable proposal,
because it's very expensive with the lawyers and everything
to go through this, and then not have anything happen.

CT: All right. So that takes care of the three branches of the
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SL: We've talked about family; I want to get back, briefly.
Your mother was Mary Colgate Mcisaac?

SRL:-No. She was Mary Josephine Mcisaac. The Colgate came in
there because she and her sister, my Auntie Eunie Forbes,
(who was really like a second mother to me) and her brother
were pretty muchly raised by her father's sister and her
husband, by the name of Colgate.
400 Her father was in the Spanish-American War, in Cuba,
when he met my mother's mother. She was ... this is part of
the American melting-pot; her mother was French, her father
was Spanish, from Spain, and during the· Spanish-American War
he was a secret envoy to Mexico, and was assassinated. So
he left his wife, and daughter, and son, in Cuba, in Havana,
where along comes this Scottish Mcisaac fellow, who woos her
as the story goes, "through the window." It's wonderful.
He brings her, his wife, and her mother- and her younger
brother, to Boston where they proceeded to ..... she had three
children. Mother, and Aunt, and their first child who died
of diphtheria, which was a blow.
So after she died, the grandmother and her,brother went
back to Cuba, so that_' s when Mother, and Eunie, and her son
James, lived with the Colgates. Mcisaac, bless him, went
off and married somebody else, didn't tell her (this is
wonderful I love this) didn't tell her that he had children.
450 So he brought her home to Aunt Alice Colgate and Uncle Bert
(who were wonderful) and here were these three children.
Anyway, the Colgates really, essentially raised Mother,
and Eunie ,. and her brother -James. So when Mother and Dad
were married and came out here, they were all_ so·darn young,

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