Archive for March, 2010

Great Aunt Maude’s… official state archives

In November, I learned that Maude Newton Simmons, my great-great aunt and (self-given) namesake, was a teacher, an architectural drafter, and a dealer of King Midget cars. The 1977 Delta Democrat-Times profile I unearthed even included a photograph of her, at 92, looking out the window of her strange and delightful little vehicle. Shortly after posting about the article, I typed . . .

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