Ida Mae: And Her Passage to Chautauqua

Meet Ida Mae. You'll learn to love her as she evolves from a spirited thirteen-year-old into a woman, first journeying from Mammoth Falls, West Virginia, to Pitt University on a music scholarship, and from there to Vietnam as a member of the Women's Army Corps. After the loss of her husband in Nam, the Ball Buster's Bash in San Francisco serves as a fine diversion, as does her experience as a salesperson at Holly's Hat on Rodeo Drive in Hollywood, California. She arrives back home in West V...