She Did WHAT??

You think you know the women of the Fieg family, do you?  We'll just see about that...

1.  THOUGH ONLY A LITTLE GIRL, she and her brothers spotted a forest fire from the top of a high bluff, alerted the fire department before it could spread and in so doing helped save a large stand of timber and several homes and public buildings.

a) Marsha Whiteside Adams
b) Liz Bookhout Boggs
c) Jean Davie Fieg
d) Maxine Fieg Whiteside

I have some water -- where's the fire??

ANSWER:  Unlike the Fiegs who were pillars of the East End, Jean, Raymon and Norman Davie grew up in the West End where Chestnut Steet passes under the commanding view of the Table Rock.  A fire there, if left to develop, would not only have led to the loss of thousands of dollars of timber but also would have threatened the adjoining Hartwick College campus.  Jean and her brothers were on hand to save the day.
 
 
2.  ON THE MORNING OF April 13, 1924, Mrs. Lothar Fieg Sr. went to the bedroom of her daughter, Flo, and found the bed empty because

a) thrilled with the prospect of the end of prohibition, Flo had imbibed too freely the night before and had spent the night in the home of a friend.
b) Flo had eloped with young Richard J. Bookhout the night before.
c) Flo had had a bout of sleep-walking and was found outside snoring in a hammock.
d) victim of an April Fool's day joke, Flo was prowling the woods with a burlap bag hunting snipe.

Cooking food for the reception???

 

ANSWER:  During the height of the Great Depression, Flo's father was so strapped for materials at times that one wall of a house he built had a mis-matched assortment of window frames because that was all that was available.  Can it be that Flo wanted to save her father the expense of a wedding, or did they simply run off in the heat of passion?  Whatever the answer, they did elope on that night.
 
 
3.  THIS FAMILY MEMBER HAS a first cousin once removed whose father was a participant and ring leader in an unsuccessful plot to assassinate notorious dictator Rafael Trujillo and was shot to death by a military goon squad on a distant Carribbean island.

a) Phyllis Fieg
b) Sarah Fieg Corkery
c) Carol Ramagosa
d) Anne Roman
 
ANSWER:  Even after he stepped down from the presidency, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo continued his ruthless reign until he was assassinated on a street corner in 1961 in Santo Domingo (then called Ciudad Trujillo).  Sarah Fieg Corkery, great-granddaughter of freedom-fighter Eduardo Pizano, speaks barely a word of Spanish (though she studied it in school) and has yet to meet her Dominican cousins.
 
 
4.  THIS FAMILY MEMBER'S STRIKING, natural beauty prompted a television cameraman and director to single her out from the crowd of thousands in an isolated camera closeup during a live broadcast of a major league baseball game.

a) Diane Jester Bookhout
b) Lisa Puglisi
c) Lisa Fieg
d) Maxine Fieg Whiteside
 
ANSWER:  Though they are both no longer in use, old Yankee Stadium and old Shea Stadium were convenient venues of entertainment for all New Yorkers and Lisa Fieg and her neighbor, Louis DiIulio, always managed to find time to attend a few games each year.  When Lisa found out she was on TV, she wondered why.  Why, look in the mirror, girlfriend!

 
5. JEAN FIEG WAS A COMPLIANT and acquiescent spouse during her 39- year marriage to Philip Fieg, but found herself objecting when he

a) decided to get his pilot's license renewed and take to the skies over Ithaca, NY
b) decided to buy a sailboat and cast off far out in the Finger Lakes.
c) drifted away from her and mingled with other people at a party
d) decided to open his own photography shop and give up his newspaper career
 
ANSWER:  Interestingly enough, Philip Fieg did, indeed, open a photography studio, did, in fact, fly a plane over Ithaca, NY and did, most assuredly, sail the waters of Lake Skaneateles, one of the Finger Lakes of Upstate New York.  Jean, who enjoyed flying, sailing and photography along with her husband, also enjoyed having him right by her side during an evening out with others.
 
 
6.  THIS FAMILY MEMBER'S cabin cruiser plies the waters of the Great Lakes

a) Carol Ramagosa
b) Kathi Whiteside
c) Mary Wolcott
d) Sue Williams
 
ANSWER:  Even though Jeff and Kathi Whiteside live in Appleton, WI on the shores of beautiful Lake Winnebago (about 300 square miles in area) which dwarfs Otsego Lake (about 4 square miles in area), they moor their boat on the much bigger and more challenging waters of Lake Michigan (22,400 square miles of surface area).