Roy and Fannie Mitchen at their Crossett Home
Above is a picture of Fannie and Roy Mitchen outside of
their home in Crosset, Arkansas.
Fannie Mitchen wrote "Threads of Life" when the mayor of Crossett, Arkansas named a day in her honor for some of the crocheted works that she donated to the town. I was 10 years old, when my family made the trip to Crossett to be there for the festivities on March 7, 1982. Fannie Mitchen, my great-grandmother, passed away eight months later on November 19, 1982.
Fannie Mitchen wrote "Threads of Life" when the mayor of Crossett, Arkansas named a day in her honor for some of the crocheted works that she donated to the town. I was 10 years old, when my family made the trip to Crossett to be there for the festivities on March 7, 1982. Fannie Mitchen, my great-grandmother, passed away eight months later on November 19, 1982.
Above is a picture of Rosalyn Spencer (Fannie's daughter)
and me (Rosalyn's great-niece). In April 2002, my husband and I traveled
to Monticello to visit with Aunt Rosalyn and retake pictures of the dolls.
To my dismay, I realized during the photography some of the dioramas that
I remembered from the story were missing. Aunt Rosalyn explained that Great-grandmother
viewed the dolls as living art. Often, she would disassemble dioramas to
use the boxes, dolls, and backgrounds to create a new scene. I have tried
to note pictures of lost dioramas and new dioramas that were added to the
"story" between the time it was written and her death.