ABSTRACT

Life changed irrevocably for Lucy Rutherfurd in the years known as the Roaring Twenties just as it had for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Women may have shortened their skirts, bobbed their long hair, danced the Charleston, and called themselves flappers, but being a wife to Winty and a mother to his five children filled Lucy’s days. The Jazz Age may have been frenzied, but it was legally dry because of Prohibition. Harry Houdini entertained crowds with his seemingly impossible magical escapes. Henry Ford’s mass production put affordable Model Ts on the American road. Charlie Chaplin was on the screen and Amelia Earhardt in the air. Through it all Lucy was at home in Tranquility.