Early efforts to meet and make new friends in Middlesex County

 

Mary Wakefield Buxton

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URBANNA — One day, a glorious spring day one Sunday, the sort of day Father would open the front door of our house in Ohio to greet the sun singing the cheerful refrain “nothing could be finer than to awake in Carolina in the morrrrrrning!” (I never fully understood this tradition because hadn’t we awakened in Ohio?) As I was walking with one of the “goldens,” Brandy, a woman thrust open her front door and shouted, “Why aren’t you in church?”

Mary Wakefield Buxton
Mary Wakefield Buxtonhttps://www.ssentinel.com/category/one-womans-opinion/
“One Woman’s Opinion” served as a special feature of the Southside Sentinel for four decades, written by the late Urbanna resident Mary Wakefield Buxton. Traditionally a humorist, Mary has written a column on all subjects and sometimes in very serious vein. Along with writing a column for the Sentinel, she is also author of 15 books about life and love in Tidewater, Virginia.