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_____ and Annalee Jacoby. Thunder Out of China Thunder Out of China. London: Gollancz, 1947.

Whiting, Charles F. ”Development of the Communities of Francis Avenue and the Norton Estate.” Cambridge, MA, March 1966.

Wittemore, Hank. ”Julia and Paul” (cover story), Parade Parade, Feb. 28, 1982.

York, Pat. ”Julia Child,” in Going Strong Going Strong. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991: 6669.

Grandfather John McWilliams (18321924) followed the Gold Rush to California from Illinois when he was seventeen years old. In the twentieth century he moved his family from the Midwest to Pasadena, from where he managed his Arkansas rice farmland and Kern County, California, mineral rights.

Westonholme: Grandfather Byron Curtis Weston's home in Dalton, Ma.s.sachusetts, taken in the winter of 1899. Julia's mother, Julia Carolyn, was born here, the seventh of ten children of Byron (18321898), founder of the Weston Paper Company, and Julia Clark Mitch.e.l.l (18441902).

Julia Carolyn McWilliams, born August 15, 1912, with her parents, John and Caro, on the veranda of their first house, at 625 Magnolia Avenue in Pasadena, one block west of her McWilliams grandparents.

Julia Carolyn (Caro) Weston (thirty-three) and John McWilliams, Jr. (thirty), on their honeymoon at the Coronado Hotel in San Diego, California, in January 1911. A happy ending to what her brothers called ”the eight-year war of their courts.h.i.+p.”

Eulalie, Julia's 1929 black Ford, which she was given in her senior year at Smith in 19331934. She drove her gang to the speakeasies in Holyoke during the campaign to repeal prohibition.

Caro (in her tennis clothes) and her three children, John III, Julia, and Dorothy, about 1923 or 1924, in Montecito, on the sh.o.r.e next to Santa Barbara, where the family rented a home each summer until the mid-1920s.

The Gang of Five from Hubbard House, Smith College (19301934), Northampton, Ma.s.sachusetts: Constance Thayer, Peggy Clark, Julia McWilliams, Mary Case (her roommate), and Hester Adams. Julia's animal is the only one that is not stuffed.

Julia McWilliams on the steps of the family's summer home in San Malo, near Oceanside, California, 1936. This was her ”social b.u.t.terfly period,” when the weekend parties included a house full of friends and plenty to drink.

Dort, John, and Julia, sitting on the brick wall that held off the sand around their summer home in San Malo, in the late 1930s, about the time that Dort was going to Bennington College and John into the family business (the Weston Paper Company).

Julia in a Pasadena Junior League play, probably The Emperor The Emperor (1938). Her acting and playwriting began in the family attic. Fifty years later she told Charlie Rose, ”I'm on TV for the same reason you are, I'm a ham!” (1938). Her acting and playwriting began in the family attic. Fifty years later she told Charlie Rose, ”I'm on TV for the same reason you are, I'm a ham!”