One of the many memories I have of living and teaching at a boarding school in Mobile, Alabama (1998-2000) is seeing a student show up one day wearing a bright purple hoop skirt accompanied with a bonnet and umbrella. She was one of Mobile’s Azalea Trail Maids. It was distinctly “southern” and something that I had absolutely no frame of reference to und…
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