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Commentary: Jean Edmunds was born 100 years ago today, 13 December, in far Northern Maine. Her family owned a lot of farmland, and grew plenty of potatoes. Like their community, they were white, Protestant (Episcopalian), and Republican. Jean attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts. After graduating, she learned that the Chinese Ambassador, T.V. Soong, and his wife were seeking a Wellesley grad as live-in governess. The Chinese said of T.V.’s sisters, the famous Soong Sisters: “One lov...

In tribute to Jean Edmunds — entertainer, teacher, mother Peter Goodman, Your view Jean Edmunds was born 100 years ago today, 13 December, in far northern Maine. Her family owned a lot of farmland, and grew plenty of potatoes. Like their community, they were white, Protestant (Episcopalian) and Republican. Jean attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts. After graduating, she learned that the Chinese ambassador, T.V. Soong, and his wife were seeking a Wellesley grad as live...

Ching Ling Foo: America’s First Chinese Superstar tells the incredible story of the iconic Chinese magician Ching Ling Foo’s obstacle laden rise to unprecedented fame and private railway car riding fortune as a bustling, polyglot, entertainment mad, ever richer, disruptive technology embracing America burst into the Twentieth Century. Ching Ling Foo; reportedly the greatest illusionist ever seen on American soil along with his talented family of musicians and acrobats overcome on stage atta...