Cultural References
On June 2, 1958 in Weirton, West Virginia, a public library called "The Mary H. Weir Public Library" was named in her honor with Weir cutting the ribbon in person.
In 1965, Kosinski dedicated his novel The Painted Bird to her, and it was at this time that she began to feel ill. Kosinski fictionalized his marriage to Mary Hayward Weir in his 1977 novel Blind Date referring to her under the pseudonym Mary–Jane Kirkland.
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“A society that has made “nostalgia” a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)