“Mad Men” Season Opener — Betty Draper Gets a Reno Divorce

In anticipation of the fourth season opener of AMC’s acclaimed Mad Men, there was speculation on if we would see scenes with Betty Draper in Reno getting a divorce. This created some buzz about Reno’s glamorous divorce ranch era of the 1940s and ’50s. Check out Priya Jain’s illustrated story, Betty Goes Reno, at Washington Post.

Featured in BUST MAGAZINE, Dec/Jan 2010

BUST Magazine Dec/Jan 2010

“The Six-Week Cure – Remembering the era when Reno ‘divorce ranches’ helped unhappily married women start new lives” by Priya Jain 

Kudos to Bust Magazine  (Dec/Jan 2010) and Priya Jain for this compelling, six-page feature story written from the woman’s point of view and capturing  what it was like to get a Reno divorce. Especially compelling is author Marilu Norden’s own recollection of staying at Pyramid Lake Ranch in the 1950s (later thinly-veiled in her novel Unbridled: A Tale of a Divorce Ranch).