Priscilla Club meets at Hidden Garden
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The Priscilla Club met on September 1st, 2021 at Hidden Garden with Caroline Heath and Dorthy Quick as hostesses. Various desserts were served to the fourteen members present and one guest.
The meeting was called to order by newly elected President Carol Yaw. Mrs. Yaw began the meeting by welcoming everyone and shared ideals by Carl Schultz.
Previous meeting minutes and treasurers reports were approved. Announcements included thank you cards sent from the family of Robert Morris as well as a letter from Haven Hospice for our twenty dollar donation.
Mrs. Yaw informed the club that the sesquicentennial committee had met and are asking Chrisman Clubs to sponsor a float.
“So we have a year to think of something,” Yaw said. There were no reports from special or standing committees and no unfinished business.
Roll call was provided by Crystal Jenkins who passed out funnies from Aunty Acid. Members had a good laugh as they were read aloud.
Caroline Heath had the program for the meeting and invited Marilyn Fischer. Mrs. Fischer gave a program on the book ‘The Book Women of Troublesome Creek’.
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a 2019 novel by Kim Michele Richardson. The story is a fictionalized account of two real subjects in the history of eastern Kentucky: Cussy Mary is a “Book Woman” — one of the Packhorse Librarians who delivered books to remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains during the Great Depression, from 1935 to 1943, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) program.
Cussy Mary is also a “Blue” — the last of a line of blue-skinned people, whose skin appears the unusual shade due to a rare genetic disorder.
As a Book Woman, Cussy Mary is highly regarded, but as a Blue, she is feared and reviled, and experiences racism, discrimination and violence.
The Book Woman was on The New York Times Best Seller list, as well as the best seller lists of the Los Angeles Times and USA Today and also won several national honors, including Forbes Best Historical Novel.
After her program, Mrs. Fischer announced that she would be donating the book, along with ‘Down Cut Shin Creek’, which tells of the book women and has photographs of their story.
President Carol Yaw called for Judy to join to group for a thank you for hosting the club and the meeting was adjourned.
