Simpson Family
Rita Stearns Simpson, and husband Tom Simpson have the distinction of opening 1632 in scenes shared by Mike Stearns and James Nichols. They are celebrating with their guests at their wedding reception when the Ring of Fire happened. Rita, younger sister raised by Mike Stearns since their father's death, is off with her bridesmaids and visiting other guests, enjoying the best day of her life, radiant as all brides should be, while her new husband and brother are trading severe looks with the groom's parents. Tom Simpson opens the flagship novel with a scene where he is apologizing to Mike for his parents' attitude.
Stearns has paid for the wedding and reception, but it is clearly not up to the standards of the big-city big shot snobbish elder John and Mary Simpson, industrialist and socialite both—and they are not hiding their attitudes. Subsequent events in 1632 lead Tom and Rita into total estrangement from John and Mary Simpson for several years.
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And talk of the old country—mud and boards,
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The snow falling down and necks of lovers.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
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