Her name was Alice, but we lovingly called her "Jungle Jane."
Grandmother and I went to Egypt 1981.
It was, "the last place I want to go." she said.
She got her wish. She passed away in 1982.
This is a great flier from "Spin the Globe" with Alice M. Scott, daughter of Hugh Doggett Scott Sr., traveled the world through the 1930's and 1940's. Her wanderlust continued for a lifetime. She was a frequent guest speaker, including National Geographic.
The films which she created with then husband, Robert Fuller, were considered of "excellent quality" and I believe now are in the NBC Studio Archives. I would love to find those films. If you are connected with NBC, reach out, please give us the first contact clue to begin our search. NBC is a huge company, I have already tried to narrow down where to begin, with no luck.
I remember Grandmother Alice, telling me stories of arriving on barren beautiful white sand beaches of Grand Cayman and other islands in a sailboat and cooked iguana dinners. Traveling down terrible roads, to Mexico and then toward Guatemala, when the roads ran out, the put the car on a train, when the train line ran out, they hired burros to go as far as they would carry them. Once arriving to a tribe who had only seen one other blue eyed individual, a French religious man. They ate the food provided by the host which was excessively hot, and she contracted salmonella poisoning which affected her digestive system the rest of her life. I will try to provide some news articles covering her travels from the Taj Mahal to sea sailing journeys. All in time.....
Above dated June 1941
Above dated January 1940
Promotional Photo of Alice Mitchell Scott
( when married to Robert Sevier Fuller )
Above dated late 1930's
Above dated 1972.
The notes on the back of a photo taken on the plane from USSR Moscow via Vienna.
Notation of Egyptologist and Sanskrit student.
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