For those of you following along with my journey to find the history of grandmother Madge's career as a milliner, you might remember a previous post that included a letter from Mrs. Margaret Steely in Chanute, Kansas. That letter was one of the first clues I had about Grandmother Madge's hat shop....
The announcement of the movie WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, got me thinking of all the great song parodies through the years. and the artists who made those songs famous. My love of the genre begins with Spike Jones and his City Slickers. I blame my mom.
Spike Jone...
Finding Madge – Kemper County, MississippiWith Miss Thelma’s canned goods safely tucked in the back seat, we headed off to the 'big city' of DeKalb, county seat of Kemper County, Mississippi. Our destination? The Kemper County Historical Museum. Miss Thelma put in a good word for us since the m...
A Pleasant Low Country Afternoon in Bluffton South Carolina
Madge met a gal pal last week to have lunch at one of her favorite shopping areas in the low country – historic Bluffton, South Carolina. If you are not familiar with the low country, it covers the coastal areas of Georgia and South Caroli...
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
Madge and her husband, Mr. Madge, spent a delightful weekend in New York City. Mr. was not arriving until the late the first evening. So upon arrival, Madge rushed to her favorite midtown hotel, unpacked, donned her favorite vintage brooch, an...
Finding Madge - Back to Mississippi
That spring Madge was back on the road. A social commitment in Dallas allowed a road trip through Mississippi. The plan: spend a couple of days in Scooba plus do some archival research in Jackson. It was finally time to try to put the pieces together on grandmo...
