Please meet my great great great aunt Philomena Entwhistle. Her father was Ephraim Entwhistle, a respected but strict Unitarian minister in Providence, R.I. Actually born as Phillip, poor Auntie ran way from home at twelve, stowed away on a clipper ship, and eventually turned up in Dominica, where she adopted her new name and persona. Auntie worked as a cook at a sugar plantation and eventually bought and operated a boarding house for lonesome sailors. It wasn’t until one of her drunken boarders tried to assault her and was subsequently beaten to death with a rolling pin that the truth was discovered about what was beneath those crinolines. Fortunately, Philomena had a “friendship” with the presiding justice and all charges were dropped. This portrait was commissioned by the justice as a “gift.” #instantancestor #fauxfamily #familyportrait #poorphilomena

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