The Wright Family Portrait

The Wright family (in real life) consisted of one father (Milton Wright), one mother (Susan Wright), four brothers (in descending order of age: Reuchlin, Lorin, Wilbur, and Orville Wright), and one sister (Katherine Wright). In Darcy's world, however, there are four Miltons (at left, the shaggy dog, the large blue octopus, the large white teddy bear, and the green plastic bug with pink wings), three Susans (at right, the blue elephant, the multi-colored dog, and the blue and green medium-sized octopus), no Reuchlin or Lorin, two Wilburs (Mickey Mouse and the turquoise nightshirt hanging behind the Wright Brothers -- please, just don't ask), one Orville (the blue doll with hat sitting next to Mickey/Wilbur), and an almost endless number of Miss Katherines (the rest of the dolls/animals in the picture).

These roles are pretty much fixed and unvariable, although sometimes the Miss Katherines are pulled into other story-lines. One is missing from the picture because she is busy acting the part of the dinosaur-conductor on the Dinosaur Train.

This is our life.