Peanuts by Charles Schulz for November 09, 2023

well said Lucy! Crabbiness is optional though!

In fact, her grandmother wrote this for her.

Not gonna lie, Lucy’s report deserves an A grade

Great report, great finish, Lucy.

Every year, I assigned my students to interview the oldest person in their families that they could take with face to face. They were to learn the Important Things about their lives and then write an essay about them.

Mine surely did.

Hear, hear, Lucy!! Old people are treated like subhuman beings in today’s society. Here is an example. Notice how Joe Biden is regarded with contempt because he is old? This is NOT a political observation. I do not live in America, and I know absolutely nothing about Joe Biden or his politics, or politics in general. All I’m saying is that when people criticize him, they bring his age into it, as though the fact of him being old is disgusting and an outrage – they use “old” as an insult which prefaces whatever else they may (rightly or wrongly) be saying about him. How would another person of his years feel when reading comments such as that? Again, this observation of mine has nothing to do with politics – I am giving an example of everyday ageism, and how “old = unattractive” in the minds of so many people.

There’s a saying that goes something like, “When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.” That quote easily should apply to old women, as well. To paraphrase Roy Batty, “All that knowledge is lost, like tears in rain.”

This may be Lucy’s finest moment.

My great -aunt was an adventurer. Went to China in the 30s to teach but was taken captive by the Japanese when they invaded. Spent the next several years in an internment camp till she was released in a prisoner exchange. When she got home, she wrote several scholarly articles about it.

Well said, Ms. Van Pelt!

How much do peanut butter cookies know?

My grandmother passed away in 1992.

My kids kind of got ripped, their papa’s mom died when they were very little, my dad died before they were born, my mom was nuts/abusive, so that left them with their papa’s dad! We all loved him and he live into his 90s.

I see yesterday’s kid vanished back into the vortex of obscurity…

Applause for my Grandmother! And all of yours too.

I wish I could do that, sweetie, but, alas, my grandmother’s all died before I was born. I wish I had had your presence of mind to ask questions of my one grandfather. Or, even, my mother, though she shared much of her life over the course of our being together.

Lucy and her granny must be very close. After all, why else would she take her not showing up during the holidays so personally and try to better herself in time for New Year’s Eve, so she’ll come visit more often? Auld Lang Syne really taught us a lot about their loving relationship.

Sound advice.

We really do owe a debt of gratitude to the women, during WW2 entered the workforce and kept the nation running and producing.

My grandfather worked in the war industry, I’m English, and he was in and survived the destruction of Coventry.

My grandmother and mother were evacuated from london to York in the north, but found the people there so unfriendly my grandmother went back to london and rode out the blitz.

Yup she’d rather face German bombers than stay in York.

Very excellent advice Lucy

I’ve liked this story arc a lot!

My Great Grandma became a widow at 32 with 7 children to support (my grandma was 12, she was the oldest). Great Grandma took her children from Kansas City to Baca County Colorado by covered wagon, and homesteaded by herself. She lived to be 96. WHAT A WONDERFUL WOMAN.

This is why everyone should write memoirs, in case there is nobody to tell their story to

One time I wrote a paper about my father. I wrote how he carried a rifle through the woods to get to his bus stop for school. The teacher thought I had written “knife” but forgot the “k”, and “corrected” the spelling. I tried to explain to her but she refused to believe that a kid needed to carry a rifle. She was a young teacher and most of the kids in my class were the oldest in their families, so she couldn’t get that MY dad was born in 1929.

My grandmother helped raise 16 younger siblings, a usual thing for oldest females. This was before both world wars! She also helped raise me! Loved her so much ;)

Wow! Bravo Lucy! Well spoke!

I never knew my grandparents on either side and I never met my mother or father.

Ask today and you might learn that granny was at Woodstock but got censored out of the film!

Charles Schulz, feminist. Not a common thing in Peanuts.

Well done, Lucy!

The earliest signs of Alzheimer’s appeared in my grandmother when I was in the ninth grade, and the disease’s progression coincided more or less with the end of my childhood. So I became mature enough really to appreciate her wisdom and life experience at just about the exact moment that she was no longer able to share them. It makes me very sad thinking about that.

This is kind of a long story, but that strip made me think of it.

A few years ago when I was cleaning out my parents’ house after they passed away, I found a box of my great uncle’s correspondence (he had passed away decades before). Mixed in with rather mundane items was a 10-page handwritten letter from 1907 written on letterhead identifying the writer as the editor and publisher of a small South Dakota newspaper. The most interesting thing about that is that the writer was a woman! I thought, How amazing that a woman had a job like that at the turn of the previous century.

In the letter, she wrote about her work, people she knew who were getting married (and wondered if she ever would), and her previous “sweethearts.” I became curious about her life and found her on Ancestry. It turns out that she did marry, and I found her granddaughter (now a senior citizen), and was able to send the letter to her. She told me that reading about her grandmother’s life as a young woman in her own words was such a gift.

Is this close in time to Lucy’s lecture about telephone poles being special trees developed by The Phone Company?

Wow! Perhaps the most profound comic strip of all time.

Good closing in your speech…..

Someday, they’ll make a movie of her story. Unfortunately, the marketing department will recommend recasting the role with a popular white male actor in response to backlash for casting a female lead in the last movie they released which underperformed at the box office.

Also, some tweaks to the script will change the story so now it’s about a guy who couldn’t go to war because of cancer or something and instead single-handedly convinced women to work in the plants in the first place. “Based on a true story.”

I knew that Grandma was more than peanut butter cookies.She worked in the test kitchens for The Edison Company in Chicago.She could bake all manner of goodies.She had started there during the depression, after her husband(my Mother’s father) died. My Mom was the oldest of,5 kids.All my Grand parents were born in Germany, and came to America at different ages.

All WW2 women knew survival skills that would make a Marine sit up and take notice.

I applaud Lucy’s presentation. And Mr. Schultz’s choice of topic.

Amen Lucy, Amen

Lucy’s grandmother sounds cool.

My grandmother was a WASP. She taught me and several my cousins to fly. My wife prefers to be a passenger, but I started teaching the girls when they were big enough to reach the controls. Another generation in the air. Clear skies Gramma. Clear skies.

So true…I used to assign an interview of an elderly person to my students…they had some real surprises.