Independent, Unconventional Irene S. Peck Loved Books
The Santa Fe New Mexican › March 13, 2004
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Eldorado resident Jim Peck, 76, described his mother, the state's first librarian, as a "supremely independent and unconventional woman."
Born in 1894, Irene Sattley Peck married James Oscar Peck in 1926 and divorced him 10 years later. Jim was 8 years old. "My father was a good old-fashioned male chauvinist who expected a woman to stay at home and tend the house and kids, but my mother didn't go for that. She had already been a librarian in Detroit and in Hollywood in the 1920s during the Douglas Fairbanks era. When they divorced, she didn't even ask for alimony, but my father did right by her anyway."See the full content of this document
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Independent, Unconventional Irene S. Peck Loved Books
Irene and her son moved to Santa Fe in 1936 and she became the st...
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