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STATE Lassachusetts
ii OF lu' Louise G. Bassett
ADDES Brookfield, Lassachusetts
-3US,JECT Living Lore
',ALE ANDADIJRE,73S OF INFORANT: Alan Wallace, Brookfield,
Lassachusetts
Alan Wallace is a big man well over six
feet and weighing about one hundred and ninety
pounds. J -)y no chance can he be called good
looki., in fact he holol:;; but hiL
laie lc:LAI evc1 cL71iLL e„L(ij 1-jr_c e; es
a tvilkle.
torn in iirookfiela about fifty-
five :,ebxs ago. His fazily oriinaJHy caLe
fro laiLE is Lranufathel- was
a Jai vealtL fifi,cnce.
L•
lic'7rockfielc oL.te,sfl to tcle
1 rVC 1'
materialized and he spent his life working a
small worn-down fan,. He itc.,L a sLall incole
froL L ,E.rEritL, 1-Ait nver a de( to it so
that on his death his children had no material
STATE
E. OF 'XRKER
AD0RESS
SUBJECT
UAiLE AlID ADDRESS
Lassachusetts
Louise G. Bassett
Brookfield, hassachusette
Living Lore
OF TlaTf: Alan Wallace, Drookfielc"
1-asEachusetts
inieritance. hut they did have a heritage of culture
and love. Lrs. Wallace, a refined well-educated woman,
was a superb mother instilling in her children a love
for education, wusic and art. It was she who encouraged
Alan in nis desire to be a concert cingers and saw to it
ti.at he was seLt abroa foi several -,ors'stuo_-.,. Un-
fortunately just as he wasabout to wake his debut on
the concert stage, Alan was stricken with a serious
illness which left hiw speechless for over two years.
Eventually he recovered his eAkinL voice, hut Ile
ie.L. never beel, elae to sin.. he loves vtisic, has a
large collection of records for his victrola, listens
constantly to concerts over the radios but Oeplores
the prevalence of ,azz and "wing."
Alan lives in the "Over the River" istrict of
-rookfiela some distance frois the town center. He
Ln aprtl e t of tree rooms in a house owned by a
hiss Sibley ho is a trained nurse, permanently engiAged
at the iary Lane hopital in Ware. liss,3ibley returns
STATE isassachusetts
OF TURKER Louise G. Bassett
AD-1)RESS Brookfield, Lassachusetts
6U:L'isECT Livilz Lore
ALE AD1-Ra, s CF isFsiAfT; Alan Wallace: arookfiala,
JLssachu,stts
home for occasional week -ends and vacations leavinte iL
L:c.u'e of tie house in her absence to Alan. He has
a pleasant sitting room furnished coisfortably with several
easy chairs, a couple of tables loaded with books, a
ssok CC-Ast --IA: a 7.,-(fr;, izate couci covere,i cre-
tonne. The room is shabby and worn, but it has a
"come in, make ,ourself coiLfortable and feel at hoise"
look that many much finer places entirely lack.
dnen Miss oibley ia _los at home Alan has the
use of the kitchen auu prepares all his meals. He
is an excellent cook and can bake, fry anu boil
better than L:any :notie_iveE. He take._ pi.ide in
his cookinL cl;;. his large well -planned flo.er garden.
Lo (ALE ia frookfielu, lcsast oi all .x:u4n Jii elf?
"en tH c I az. He frel Lit Ye has
no ambition and does not mind because he is not a
succs;.,:u.He ccrIz.iCerE it a „oke on Yis Puritans
ancestors who viorked so Lao to asss their wa, that
,ost tc last of tie family is just "nobody."
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TATE
i‘jAmE OF WORKER
tti.k.;RES6
ECT
isassachusetts
Louise G. Bassett
brookfielu, Isassachusetts
L:vfn,j Lore
.I'D i'IPPRFL OF 7.-F(.1-i 112: iLL Jallace, BID o kf e ld
Lassachusetts
He is an expert designer and has worked for years,
off and on, in the veal xlll in Warren. Ye
talks of his work with reluctance, seems to dislike
it and observes that he works only because he must to
live and he enjoys living. He is forever buying
-rish Lweei take tickets, taking c -1c trLing
contests. At present the Lovie quiz is absorbing
all his fiche.
He spenus much of his time reading and has a
large well-selecteu collection of books. lie owns
an old Foro and only the braves dare ride itL
He is ulwaz,s in delanC, tt 1:4.1.ties and ii.-
is the one ,Hc ru.s a aL i inite errands
tries to quiet the bak roused from sleep and escorts
the spinster school teacner home. Noting is too
iluch trouble for Alan sitting up nights with the
sick, chopping woou for some old lady, explaining
an arithematic probleill to young Johnny or justplfriendly
and kind. EverybodL likes him an Alan seems to like
everybody.