How Pennsylvania will be won. The POLITICO Battleground States polling average is a calculation of the most recent public polling in 11 swing states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Erdrich (pronounced air-drik) was the first of seven children born to Ralph and Rita Erdrich. Born on June 7, 1954, in Little Falls, Minnesota, she was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Her mother, of Ojibwe descent, was born on the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Reservation while her father was of German ancestry.
In 1984, I wrote Lillian Gish for and inquiry as to the validity of my mother's claim to familial relationship. The answer I got back was in no uncertain terms, I was absolutely not related to the Gish sisters. However, Jerry Gish, my Grandfather lived his live very much like Lillian Gish's father. He traveled the world and have numerous wives, 13 was the last count. My mother's birth name is Yvonne Olive Gish born in Los Angeles, Ca in 1925. Her father was Jerry Gish, born in South Dakota, no town is denoted. My mother claimed Lillian and Dorothy Gish were my great aunts, half sister's to Jerry Gish. My mother sang for big bands in the forties but I don't know her stage name. I have a picture of her with the Dorothy Leonard Band. In 1984, I wrote Lillian Gish for and inquiry as to the validity of my mother's claim to familial relationship.