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This is a work in progress.
Born in April of 1944, while the winds of World War Two were still a dangerous storm, she was welcomed to the world. She
was born and lived in Portland, Maine on Spruce Street until at age 3 she moved to 23 Victory Avenue, South Portland, Maine.
Dad was in the Pacific on Pelieu Island on the day she was born. Posed in his Navy uniform, in a silver picture frame, he
sat on top of a bureau in her apartment. Zolette was the center of attention as the first grandchild, a position she
held for three years. Early memories are mostly lost. Spruce Street was next to the Western Promenade and there is one vague
memory involving a kid on a bike giving Zolette a hard candy which she quickly put in her mouth. Her mother made her spit
it out. Seems like a strange incident to remember for 67 years. Her Grandmother lived on Emery Street around the corner and
she can remember mother walking her to the top of Spruce Street. Grammy would stand on the sidewalk and watch while Zolette
would walk her three year self into the arms of Grammy. And that's all there is for memories of the first three years
of life.
She was involved in theatre from an early age performing with the Portland Lyric Theatre ( her portrayal of a tree in
The Song of Norway was spectacular) and receiving an award for The Wicked Witch of the West in the Children's Theatre of Portland
production of The Wizzard of Oz. Latter, at the Brunswick Summer Playhouse, she worked with Margaret Hamilton who befriended
her and gave her "wicked" advice. In college, she performed in M.I.T.'s Tech Show at the Kresge Auditormium. And even now,
Zolette , still craving the limelight , is represented by Boston Casting and works now and then as an "Extra" in movies being
filmed around Boston. Look closely at crowd scenes on the big screen. You just might see Zolette!!
She lived in South Portland, Maine until 1962 when she moved to Boston, Masachusetts never to return. Her two children
were born at the old Boston Lying Inn Hospital on Longwood Avenue. After living for years in Boston's Back Bay and Beacon
Hill, she settled with her family in the Orient Heights section of East Boston. After years of living in row houses and
exercizing the dogs in the Public Garden or the Esplanade, a house with a fenced in yard was a luxury. East Boston is an island
and there is even a beach at the end of the street. And from October to May, it belongs to the dogs.
South Portland
South Portland is where the conscious
memories begin to emerge. As a biography demands some kind of order and the author is kinda a spontaneous
soul, there is no attempt to maintain chronological order. Zolettte's life has not been an ordinary life that followed any
traditional sequence of events. However, she married in 1968 and is still happily married to the same man in 2011.
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