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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo my mom grew up next door to Billy Barr..
My grandfather was a professor at Columbia; my mom (since passed) grew up in the faculty housing at 445 Riverside Drive. I got this email today from her best friend, relating their childhood:
The Barr family lived on the 10th floor, on the same side of the building as the Waites. They had four boys. Billy played the bagpipes. Even with the amazing solid brick walls, which cut a lot of sound, the entire building was very aware of Billy's musical development. Kippy Barr (real name Christopher, the oldest) was almost the exact same age as Maria. Billy was a bit older than Annie. The other two were Stevie and I-can't-remember. The Barrs, together with Larry and Donny O'Neill from the 9th floor, had a regular baseball game every afternoon for years, in the park right across the street from 445. In grade school Maria had several memorable fights with Kippy Barr and one of the O'Neills -- perhaps Larry. Even at the end of high school, when it snowed we had memorable snowball skirmishes with the O'Neills and the Barrs.
That doesn't give you a lot of helpful information about Billy. Sorry. From the photos now he looks exactly like his father. I imagine he is very smart and capable. And I presume he is completely honest -- his whole family were ramrod straight.
Trump nomination aside, if my source says he and his whole family are "ramrod straight" I'll believe it. I mean, there's a lot worse he could have nominated...
tblue37
(65,319 posts)short circuit the investigation.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Squinch
(50,946 posts)people I fear the way I do Barr, but I'm just going to have to wait and see for myself what he does.
But thank you for a bit of a bright side.
mucifer
(23,525 posts)fierywoman
(7,683 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)Turbineguy
(37,317 posts)to throttle Nazis by.
dchill
(38,471 posts)But I think, essentially, he's a liar.
Autumn
(45,055 posts)Yeah I'm sure because hies family is ramrod straight he's completely honest.
yonder
(9,663 posts)A piper from a stand up family that enjoys being together outside. How normal sounding, though he won't be able to escape his own repertoire.
hexola
(4,835 posts)From the oddly comforting department...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3720790/posts