E4: Minnie Machen Sayre and The Honey Bees
In this episode Alaina and Maire discuss Zelda’s mother, Minnie Machen Sayre, co-founding a literary and musical society in Montgomery, Alabama in 1903.
The members included:
Kate Slaughter McKinney (1859 - 1939), Poet Laureate of Alabama 1931.
Kate Slaughter McKinney’s Katydid available here.
Kate Slaughter McKinney’s A Weed by the Wall here.
John Proctor Mills (1879 - 1965), musician and lyricist.
Frank Lockwood (1865-1935), prominent architect. A sample of some of his homes here.
Rabbi A.J. Messing, Rabbi to Temple Beth Or and his work in Montgomery and Chicago.
Clifford Lanier (1844-1908), co-owner of the Exchange Hotel, author, and brother of Sidney Lanier.
