Check out this great article by the granddaughter of Dorothy F. Eskew, Dunwoody resident and Kingswood UMC member. Thanks for sharing with us Debbie!
Click here for the full original article by Anna at: Silver Spoon Taste (on a plastic fork budget)
About a month ago I visited my grandmother — Grammy — with my mom in Atlanta. For those of you who do not know her or haven’t heard me talk about her, Grammy is the best. We are thick as thieves, always ganging up against my mom for entertainment, bonding over our love of martinis and champagne. Mom always says she is the common enemy.
Grammy is the epitome of The Greatest Generation. Growing up on a rural farm in south Georgia during the Great Depression, she not only understands the meaning of a plastic fork budget, she lived it. Ever the optimist, Grammy considered herself one of the lucky ones: her parents Homer and Edna grew peanuts and tobacco as well as raised cows and chickens and always had food on the table. Grandmother Edna — I was born on her birthday — took care of her nieces and nephews every so often when their parents had no food to feed them. (Read the remainder of the article on the blog How to Speak Southern)
