Last summer when I told one of my friends, who is also a big GertrudeandAlice fan, that I was going to write a blog devoted to them, his first response was that he hoped I’d be writing about things that hadn’t been written about and that I wouldn’t write silly things making fun of them.
I did mention the chickens in England named Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein in an earlier post about items I’d received through my GoogleAlert. I guess that was silly. Sorry.
But now to some items about GertrudeandAlice that, though factual, could fall into the “Believe It or Not!” category. Some are the kind of tidbits that scholars love to unearth or reference to indicate that they are really in the know and that they’ve scoured those boxes in the lower basements of research libraries. For fans like me, they are like the shiny nuggets among the pebbles in a gold miner’s pan and almost as exciting as finding a previously unseen photograph of GertrudeandAlice tucked away in the pages of a rare book.
