By 1960, when Ted and Diana went on tour throughout the United States with the Boston Opera Group’s production of Voyage to the Moon, Fay was probably Diana’s sole “link to the real world” and relief from the absurdities of life in the hotels, on the tour bus and backstage. Diana recounted telling Fay how […]
(1928 – 2003) Beyond what Diana wrote in her 2004 letter to “Hob” about her second husband, Merle “Ted” Puffer, a few more words are in order. Following her disastrous first marriage to Bob Mauer, Diana did say that, if she ever considered marriage again, it would be to someone she knew far better … […]
Domestic Diversity, the first book by Lowell Pierson Beveridge, Jr., tells how, not too long after he was born in April 1930, his parents decided he would be called “Pete,” rather than “Junior.” (Tom was born eight years later — minus one day.) In 2005 Diana decided to see if her former nephew, Jesse (adopted […]
(1974 – 2015) Diana was driven, long before i was born, by curiosity. She said that some of her earliest memories were of wondering why something worked the way it did and, if possible, taking it apart to study the insides before reassembling it. When she was old enough to speak and understand conversation around […]
