I taught my two young half-Chinese, half-white granddaughters to say "Ni hao" ("Hello") to the people who stare at them.
In 1834, the historian George Bancroft devoted a dozen pages to it in his landmark "History of the United States," noting that the colony saw the birth of "the first offspring of English parents on the soil of the United States," White's granddaughter, Virginia Dare.
Ms. White had her granddaughter's coffin sealed in a vault.
Really?) White's great-granddaughter Suzannah Lessard wrote a searching memoir, "The Architect of Desire," about White's genius and his destructive compulsions, and the psychic toll of his tainted legacy on the family; part of the book was published in the magazine in 1996.
Jones says that one of her grandmothers was half-Scottish and looked white, and her own granddaughter is a blue-eyed redhead.
She is survived by her loving daughters Margaret Peggyy) Kerner (Jonathan) of Pound Ridge, New York, and Carol Landsman Hassett Stevee) of Portland, OR; brother Arthur Weinstock of White Plains, NY; and granddaughters Erica Kerner of Shanghai, China and Julie Kerner of Waltham, MA.
Surviving are his wife of 38 years, Eva Hauptmann Hirsh; two daughters, Lisa Hirsh of Boston and Donna Hirsh Geller of London; two brothers, Gene Martel of Mamaroneck, N.Y., and Howard, of Great Neck, N.Y.; a sister, Ruth Emanuel of White Plains; and two granddaughters.
The woman, who turned out to be the girl's grandmother (though she was young enough to have been her mother), later explained that it was probably my white skin that frightened her granddaughter.
She has a 6 1/2-year-old granddaughter: doesn't the white-on-white stuff — and how easily it gets dirty — make her nervous?
A granddaughter danced and laid a white rose atop his coffin; Pierre Sutton, his son, whispered: "My father, we will miss you.
