Cedar trinket box: How Betty got her [name] groove — Suzassippi’s Lottabusha County Chronicles

We lived in Newcastle from the time I was 3 until I was 7. I was probably around 5 or 6 when my Grandma took me into the Variety store, and “found” this box with my mother’s name carved in it. At the time, I thought it was just amazing that she had “found” it and was buying it for Mother. The miracles of concrete thinking, right? I do not remember why this was a gift, nor what Mother thought about it, but it always sat on her dresser. The last place it resided was on that same dresser that she and Daddy started housekeeping with, which had been moved to the “guest room” (Sis and my old bedroom) because it was a double bed.

Cedar trinket box: How Betty got her [name] groove