June 2008

Golden Gossip Club

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 motto was: To tell the [...]

Reminiscings of Lottie

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 sold horses and tobacco abroad [...]