http://poweroftheelements.com/BLOG-Lottie_Deno Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:13:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I didn't tell you this before but part of the reason I was sent to Detroit was to put some distance between myself and a boy named Johnny Golden.  Johnny was a jockey who had once ridden for my father.  That wasn't the problem though.  He was Jewish and not ... http://poweroftheelements.com/BLOG-Lottie_Deno/?p=6 In 1861 the Civil War started and I had just turned 17. My father felt he needed to enlist so he become a confederate soldier and was killed in his first battle. My mother was devastated and I became the head of the household. Relatives were concerned ... http://poweroftheelements.com/BLOG-Lottie_Deno/?p=5 Cayenne, I started the Golden Gossip Club way back in 1912. It started out as a woman's sewing club but my love for playing cards had never left so we added card playing as our central activity. The original club had twelve wives from Deming as members. Our ... http://poweroftheelements.com/BLOG-Lottie_Deno/?p=4 Most of you probably know me as Lottie Deno but I wasn't born with that name. On April 21, 1844 I was born Carlotta J. Thompkins. I lived on a plantation in Warsaw, KY. Most people would say we were "well to do". My father ... http://poweroftheelements.com/BLOG-Lottie_Deno/?p=3