The Hipster's Legacy

<p><strong>The coming of age of a late bloomer and quiet dreamer set in a small beach town community of southern California during the early 1960s.</strong></p><p></p><p>Born into a musical family and raised on dreams of fame and glory twenty-two-year-old Lorraine is finding it tough going on her own when she moves to Hollywood in the early 1960s.</p><p></p><p>Her Associate of Art's degree from the local junior college does not help her get a job in the art field. And if that isn't enough her longtime boyfriend has broken up with her. The job she does have as a receptionist is also a disaster so when she comes down with severe laryngitis she is ready to call it quits. Accepting defeat she takes the twenty-mile ride home to Hermosa Beach.</p><p></p><p>But home isn't quite the same at 230 Culper Court. In her absence her usually sensible mother has moved out to live in sin with a used car salesman named Bob. Replacing her at the cottage is Lorraine's older sister Arlene her three children and Lorraine's younger brother Jeff. Arlene is an artist-of what kind she is not always sure. She is talented but erratic and seems almost mystified by the fact that she has three children to raise. Jeff is a budding jazz saxophonist a shy boy who somehow draws people around him.</p><p></p><p>Lorraine's life takes a different turn as she learns to fit in with her newly re-arranged family and all the strange and talented people who pass through the little red cottage by the sea.</p><p></p><p><strong>An intriguing and often humorous memoir of a unique family influenced by a hard-working mother who just missed being a saint and a father the wild jazz pianist and entertainer known in the 1940s as Harry the Hipster Gibson whose amazing abilities and crazy style influenced the evolution of Rock and Roll.</strong></p><p></p><p>Includes 15 illustrations by the author and a collection of 37 family photos in black and white.</p><p></p><p></p>