Loving Eccentricity

I absolutely LOVE this movie!

 

Frank Capra's classic is all about the eccentric Sycamore Family.

 

The message of the film is to be happy with your life choices and TRULY do what you WANT to do...

 

The Sycamore Family reminded me of Hittyville's very own Culpepper Family.

 

Ontario Culpepper is an extraordinary watchmaker who is teaching his daughter, Lenci, his watchmaking art.  The father-daughter team pay no attention to time...oddly enough...when working on watches and often miss a meal so as not to be distracted.

 

Olna Jane Culpepper is showing her dear Friend, Gypsy, the new astrology chart she has just made.  Olna Jane also takes creative movement classes and is in the Teacher Training Class when not consulting her charts.

 

The Culpepper Twins, Daphne and Delilah, have not gotten very far on their Great American Novel.  The sisters agreed to write alternating chapters, but Daphne's setting is in the Lake District of England, while Delilah has put their characters on a tropical island!

Hopefully, after their violin-making afternoon, the girls will figure it all out.

 

Olna Jane's sisters...Helga, Eva, and Jewel...are booking passage on the first Hittyville Queen cruise with Captain Harlan.

The sisters spend 99% of their time traveling the world. The other 1% of the time they reside in Hittyville with their family.

 

The Professor and his wife, Jillian, met the Culpeppers on an archaeological dig years ago and have been inseparable ever since.  The two couples hold chess matches every afternoon and play bridge every evening.

The couple is being instructed on some innovative bridge techniques from Peter Jensen, a world champion bridge player.

 

Miss Arabella is a seamstress and has lived with the Culpeppers ever since she made Olna Jane's wedding dress.  When she is not sewing for the family, Miss Arabella spends her time birdwatching.  She has actually mastered the songs of at least 100 different kinds of birds.

 

 

Families come in all shapes and sizes and being a bit eccentric makes life just that much more interesting...