With the tragic death of her family in
1915, Allison McKelvey was sent to live
with three old maids. Not just any old
maids, but women who were members of
The Old Maids’ Club, in which membership
was mandatory, not voluntary. Mandatory
because each of the three women, fifty years
earlier, had stood on a balcony and waved
her handkerchief as her beau rode off to fight
the invading Yankees. None of their young
men returned. Neither did their brothers,
cousins, uncles, or fathers. Others returned
maimed and crippled, broken in both body
and spirit, unable to assist in rebuilding the
South. And into this club came young Allison,
an orphan with her whole life before her.
Some changes were about to be made in The
Old Maids’ Club.
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