-- Photo Courtesy of Blair

 

 

I asked Blair if I could share her story & a photograph of her about the time of the musical spools. Here is what she writes about the shot:

It's a picture of the neighbor's mean cat visiting my grandmother and me on my parents' patio. With the photo blown up, I can see how the backyard used to be an Alabama pine forest (and then a tornado came). This grandmother used to crochet sweaters for her clothes hangers. Her closet was a rainbow; each hanger was a different yarn color, and she'd decorate their necks with ribbons, silk flowers, and frosted wax berries.