Monday, March 23, 2009

MISS KITTY FOLLETT

 Miss Kitty lived in the family home on West Street, Wrentham, opposite Cherry Street, where the wooden fence is being replaced by a stone wall, and retained her old fashioned clothes and ways. Her elderly gardener also so when she had to make a trip into town, she would dress, including a hat, climb into the rear seat of her old Chevrolet and move sedately to her appointments. The house had a tall Victorian tower and Miss Kitty's maid lived up there with no heat or plumbing. The maid was expected to, and did, use the outhouse, aided of course, by that no longer popular "convenience", the thunder jug. It wasn't bandied about locally, but the Follett house was built on a firm foundation, girdles bearing the trade name "Warners". As told by the late Esther Anderson of West Street. JJM 

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