Stories from Monday, November 25, 2019

On August 8, 1919, Thomas and Kate Gardner welcomed a baby girl into their four-room sharecropper’s house. They named her Pauline Imogene. Along with her cousins and siblings, she attended Union Grove School (Tywhop) through the eighth grade. If a high school hadn’t been too far away, she might have become a school teacher—that and the fact that she fell for a charming young man named Archie Saltzman...