Actually, there were lots of things to buy, including
home-made pralines from a woman who grew up in New Orleans!
(kimsneworleanspralines.com)
It was fun seeing all the old cars. It was a Lions Club
benefit show, held in a huge local church parking lot. I spoke to the owner of
the green Model A Ford. He told me, when I asked, how to tell the difference
between a Model A and a Model T. He said to look at the fenders. The T’s
fenders are flat and the A’s fenders are rounded at the edges. Also a T has a
taller cab. His car (the green one) was, like every single one there, pristine.
The most common sight was of men polishing and dusting their shiny cars.
I liked the red ’39 Ford (I asked). The guy who owned it
kept himself scarce, but the truck owner told me that the man had taken 8 years
to restore it.
I didn’t see any ’40 or ’42 Hudsons. That’s what I grew up
driving.
And books! The Authors Guild of TN had a double booth where
xx of us sold our books. Some of us did better, but I just sold one, and wasn’t
alone in that. However, the woman who bought DEATH IN THE TIME OF ICE was an
anthropologist and was very interested. I hope I have a new fan!
photos by me and
Denise Sherriff
