Capturing Beauty

by

John Presco

Copyright 2020

(All Presco Family Photographs are Copyrighted )

Chapter One

Rosemary’s Children

My mother was very proud of her four children who were captured and abused by the brutal man she married. Rosemary was our Liberator and Provider. She went to work at the Rucker Company in Emeryville. She was the executive secretary for a man who helped put men in space. Rosemary would tell her grown children how Mr. Rucker chased her around his desk – demanding sex from a mother he paid poorly! How humiliating for her sons! Our mother complained about the men she worked for getting great salaries knowing that Rosemary did much of the work. How – unfair! Everything had to go through Rosemary, who taught herself French while sunning in the backyard at Glendon, so she can translate electrical engineering manuals into English. Thanks to Vicki Presco, our…