Missus Smith and Mistuh Mason Stay Up All Night…
… sewin’. Or so they say. Missus Smith gave up at 12:30 to go to sleep, and got up again just as Mistuh Mason was going to bed. I find the whole thi...
Tag: Rhode Island
“I know a guy”
It’s an oft-used phrase in my state of residence: I know a guy. Even I use it, because I do. Know a guy. A bunch of guys. They are mostly contractors, but...
Missing the ‘maid’?
Sarah Brown had a sister, Ruth Smith. Ruth was good with a needle, and there is an extant chair seat made by Ruth. I’d always thought, in a fuzzy, not-thi...
Chemisettes
Chemisette or tucker? By the time The Shooting Star was published in 1941-42, “bib and tucker” had wandered away from their original meanings. Tucke...
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