{"id":128,"date":"2009-03-05T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=128"},"modified":"2009-03-05T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T13:00:00","slug":"becky-melby-her-gutsy-grandmother-a-skinny-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/becky-melby-her-gutsy-grandmother-a-skinny-angel","title":{"rendered":"Becky Melby-Her Gutsy Grandmother &amp; a Skinny Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/Sa3fNoJXkTI\/AAAAAAAAAGg\/_98yn8sg6mY\/s1600-h\/Dream+Chasers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 198px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/Sa3fNoJXkTI\/AAAAAAAAAGg\/_98yn8sg6mY\/s320\/Dream+Chasers.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309144960947687730\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/Sa3fNaVWO7I\/AAAAAAAAAGY\/1d2PNFDwoLs\/s1600-h\/Becky+Melba.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/Sa3fNaVWO7I\/AAAAAAAAAGY\/1d2PNFDwoLs\/s320\/Becky+Melba.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309144957239835570\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><\/p>\n<p>Today, we hear from Becky Melby and Oku-san.  <span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">Becky:<\/p>\n<p>In 1924 my grandparents, Harold and Alice Foght, traveled to Japan. My grandfather, a professor, was there to study Japanese education and give lectures. My grandmother wanted to come along as \u201cexcess baggage\u201d and to \u201ccheer and encourage\u201d her husband. It had to have been a heart-wrenching decision, as they left behind a three-year-old\u2014my father.<br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">My grandmother\u2019s&#8211;<\/span><i style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Oku-san\u2019<\/i><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">s&#8211;determination to go everywhere her husband&#8211;<\/span><i style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Foto-san<\/i><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">&#8211;visited, caused no small stir in a culture where a woman\u2019s place was in the home. When she appeared at male-only gatherings in her fashionable American sleeveless dresses, she was immediately offered shawls. After realizing that bare arms were considered immodest, she sewed sleeves on all her garments. Another culture shock was the ricksha. My grandmother was not a tiny woman, and, besides feeling silly, was in great fear that rickety-looking vehicles would collapse under her \u201cWestern avoirdupois.\u201d Another custom that surprised them was the <\/span><i style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">furo<\/i><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">, or common bath, attended by <\/span><i style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">nesans<\/i><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\"> eager to help one disrobe!<br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">On many occasions, this prim and proper white woman ventured out bravely her own. In Tokyo, determined to see the flowers of Sheba Park, she passed women openly nursing babies and workers using the ditches as toilets, and then found that beautiful Sheba Park was crowded with huts of refugees from the recent earthquake. She soon found herself in Zogoji Temple where she reported being \u201cquite overcome by the atmosphere\u201d and would have bowed in reverence to her own God, but \u201ctrue Anglo-Saxon reticence\u201d stopped her.<br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">Overall, Oku-san left an impression that may have paved the way for a bit of freedom for some of her Japanese sisters. In time, their male companions \u201cconfessed somewhat reluctantly to new light on the position of women in Japan.\u201d They wrote the book <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Unfathomed Japan <\/span>upon their return.<\/p>\n<p><\/span> <span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">In my book <\/span><i style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Dream Chasers<\/i><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">, my heroine April Douglas is very open about her fears, especially the two biggest&#8211;heights and storms. I have no idea what my grandmother&#8217;s fears were, but I have to believe that being the first white woman to set foot in many rural areas of Japan was a set-up for some anxiety attacks. The one thing both of these women have in common is their determination to put themselves in risky situations in order to experience life to the full.<br \/><\/span> <span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">Lyn&#8211; I am a third generation author. My father&#8217;s sister, Thelma Foght Jones, wrote a book about her family called <\/span><i style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Skinny Angel <\/i><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">in honor of Grandma Foght who loved her homemade biscuits and always said that in heaven she&#8217;d be a &#8220;skinny angel.&#8221;<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\"> <\/span> <span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">I also want to let you know your blog has started something! I&#8217;m reading, really savoring <\/span><i style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Unfathomed Japan<\/i><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\"> as if I were sitting down to tea with my grandparents. My own mother never read it because she thought it was a dry old history book. So here I am, a grandmother myself, finding out that my father&#8217;s parents were witty, creative, funny, and wonderful writers! There just may be a historical fiction novel in this someday.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">      <\/span> <span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\"> My middle name came from my grandmother and I now share it with our youngest grandchild, Lillyanne Alice, who was born on Christmas Eve. I can\u2019t wait to tell her stories of her gutsy great-great-grandma.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for sharing that with us, Becky. It&#8217;s quite a heritage that you have from the strong women who have gone before you!<br \/><\/span>   <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we hear from Becky Melby and Oku-san. Becky: In 1924 my grandparents, Harold and Alice Foght, traveled to Japan. My grandfather, a professor, was there to study Japanese education and give lectures. 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