Anne is the biggest animal lover I know. She always has a little menagerie of pets and at the moment there are the dogs, Emma and Hank and a stray cat that Ann took in, Honey. We spent the morning relaxing and laughing at Ann's boxer Emma, who thinks she is a lap dog. She will bury her head in Anne's lap and then ever so s-l-o-w-l-y, she moves one hind leg up and then the other, until she is totally on Anne's lap with her head still buried. It's like she thinks, "If I do this very slowly, no one will notice me."
We met Tom downtown for lunch and then took the tour of downtown Greenwood. The founder of Viking stoves is a Greenwood native and has located the company headquarters there. Along with the appliance end of Viking, there is a cooking school, a store, a luxury hotel and a spa. Anne is "Mrs. Greenwood." She not only knows everyone in town, but she loves them all--and they love her too. The Chamber of Commerce should hire her to work for them.
A Greenwood highlight for Dick is the Cotton Row Club-a "men's club" where the guys of Greenwood go to drink, play cards, bet on games--guy stuff. The local color character of the Cotton Row Club is the Rev. L. V. "Hambone" Howard, who run errands, gets drinks and shines shoes for the patrons. Hambone is a preacher who's been preaching at his church and on a local radio station for years. So Dick and Tom went to Cotton Row Club this afternoon and had some "good ole boy time."
Dick shares a birthday with Tom and Anne's older daughter, Kate, so we all went out to another Greenwood icon, Luscos. Luscos has been around for 5 generations and dates back to the days of Prohibition. The dining area is a series of little booths with curtains over the doorways. During Prohibition, patrons would bring their moonshine to Luscos and have their drinks behind the privacy of the curtains. If no one saw them drinking, they couldn't get into trouble. And how was the Sheriff supposed to know what was going on behind those curtains anyway? Luscos is still a bring your own bottle club. We had a great dinner, and celebrated the birthdays with great friends in a great Southern venue!
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