Green Mount Parlor

The meetings of The Evergreen Society were held on Wednesday afternoons at 3:00 PM and most always began in the parlor then moved to the music room. This is a picture of the parlor taken today, September 14, 2012. The dress on the form is one that belonged to Ma [Maria Louisa Wacker Fleet] about 1858. She had by that time given birth to 9 babies, 2 of which died in infancy. Her waist measured 22" and she would have been 5' tall or a little less. She managed to survive the Civil War, a widow by its end and having suffered the loss of her beloved son Benny. She not only survived, but put her remaining 6 children through college, even her three daughters, Lou, Bessie and Florence. They came back to Green Mount and were teachers for these girls at Green Mount Home School for Young Ladies. You are reading the minutes of their meetings.