Music in the Life of President Lincoln

[L Verge]

(03-04-2019 12:35 PM)Gene C Wrote:  

(03-01-2019 09:18 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I'm waiting for the backlash to a new home decorating fashion. It is now popular to hang cotton boll wreaths on doors and place vases with silk cotton boll stems on tables or kitchen counters. You can bet it won't be popular for very long. A certain state's first lady just learned the hard way.

I am impressed, didn't know Laurie was such a trend setter.
I just checked, since your post three days ago, the Hobby Lobby Cotton Wreath just dropped in price from $59.99 to $29.99.
https://www.hobbylobby.com/Home-Decor-Fr...1-80752395

This reminds me of a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zji2Jd7pyg
(Lyrics under "show more")

Trust me, I would not have a cotton boll of anything in my house - I'm not the country kitchen type. However, Marylanders were not good at raising cotton (too cold up here - but I do have an 1845 jacquard coverlet - date woven in - created by my great-great-grandmother and servants from Egyptian cotton that was attempted as a crop on their plantation).

Tobacco is more to Maryland's liking (and some is still grown down here), and I would love to see those beautiful flowers once again - before they were topped off in late summer. We used to place them on our church altar, along with Queen Anne's Lace, and they were beautiful.