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High Tea

The "High Tea" held at the Lightner House on Sunday, May 18, was a huge success. The dining room table was attractively arranged with mouth-watering food fit for a High Tea menu. There were fresh strawberries dipped in dark and white chocolate, fresh fruit on skewers, cheesecake, Petit fours, meringue cookies, chocolate walnut delights, strawberry scones and a chocolate topiary at each end of the table (You could select the chocolate pieces of your choice). There was a selection of chicken salad on croissants, ham salad on rye cocktail bread and cucumber open-face sandwiches, plus a variety of tea flavors to choose from.

Thirty-six guests were seated around the room as the style show began. Norma McAfee and Judy Yeater were dressed in beautifully made reproductions of Civil War era gowns, while a dozen or more hats fashioned from that era and also made by Mrs. McAfee were on display and modeled.

Items of clothing from the past were shown with family members describing them. Cherie Kenney Geer wore her Aunt Elizabeth's wedding dress and hat; Thelma Hubbard wore her mother's white, summer dress, showed a 1924 dress and a wool middy blouse of her aunt's and a 1950 navy blue taffeta dress that she herself had worn. Virginia Gaskins Vandervort and her sister Brenda Gaskins May displayed Halloween costumes that their mother had worn in her youth. They also had a complete christening outfit to exhibit that was worn by their aunt, Rebecca Scranton as a baby, and a baby gown worn by their grandfather, Charles Weller.

Betty Bernard Ardwin, who was a drum majorette with the Sabina High School marching band, had her uniform and baton to show and gave a brief history of her days as a majorette. She taught herself to twirl and later gave lessons. Her uniform has been donated to the Sabina Historical Society.

Susanne PeelIe Kenney had her mother's fox furs to show and Susan Littleton Kempner showed the guests her great - grandmother's Persian Iamb coat and a jacket made of skunk fur.

Sharon Riddle Roberts read a history of English tea explaining how the tea bag was accidentally invented by a tea merchant when he decided to wrap a small amount of tea in silk bags and distribute as samples. It caught on and became an easy way of making an individual cup of tea.

An attractive floral arrangement by Cathy Floyd was given as a door prize with Cathy Fox the winner.


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