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.