In the spirit of giving this holiday season, I thought I would share a memory written for me by my mother, Elsie DeGarmo-Smith, who we lost this past year at the age of 91. For me, and so many others in her circle, it was Mom's own personal touch that created the magic of the season. Her motto of reaching out to others, caring for the lonely and downtrodden, even though you, yourself, may be grieving for lost husbands. Along with the gingerbread man tradition, she had us at a

Equali-Tea: Suffragist Tea Cozies in Redwork is the newest exhibition in the Folklife Gallery at Crandall Public Library, but with the library limitations due to pandemic, the exhibition had to go virtual. In the coming weeks I will be writing additional blog posts about the exhibition, focusing on the suffragists by region, as that is how they are displayed in the physical exhibition, and providing more insight on these mostly unfamiliar women. Equali-tea: Suffragist Tea C