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White Gloves and Collards<br />

White Gloves and Collards is the story of a privileged<br />

childhood in Edenton, North Carolina, a small southern town<br />

that cherishes its customs and history as symbolized by the<br />

Confederate Monument at the foot of Broad Street.<br />

As she copes with the untimely deaths of her parents, young<br />

Helen observes how the community is coping with a different<br />

kind of loss—an end to the Jim Crow rules of behavior they’ve<br />

always lived by. With love and support from a brainy older<br />

brother, an eclectic extended family (many of whom are<br />

segregationists), and a wise African-American maid, she tries to<br />

make sense of the changes taking place around her, both in her<br />

personal life and in society as a whole.<br />

RESIGNATION<br />

HOPE<br />

MAMA<br />

DAUGHTER<br />

GROWING<br />

SISTERS<br />

COMFORT<br />

CHANGES<br />

COMMUNITY<br />

SUPPORT<br />

GLOVES<br />

COLLARDS<br />

CAREGIVERS<br />

PLAYMATE<br />

OPPRESSIVE<br />

CHERISHED<br />

CANCER<br />

FUNERAL<br />

REMINISCED<br />

EDENTON<br />

Helen Pruden Kaufmann, a native of Edenton,<br />

NC, graduated from the University of North<br />

Carolina with a degree in American History.<br />

She was the community liaison for a public<br />

school desegregation program in Massachusettes<br />

before relocating with her family to California,<br />

where she has done writing and editorial work<br />

for educational organizations such as the Santa<br />

Clara County Office of Education, the Challenge<br />

2000 education initiative of Joint Venture<br />

Silicon Valley, and the Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />

Research and Education Institute at Stanford.<br />

Helen and her husband now live in the San<br />

Diego area<br />

Written with humor and heart-wrenching honesty, this is not a<br />

typical civil rights era morality tale where heroes and villains<br />

are clearly delineated. Rather, it’s the story of<br />

everyday people dealing with change the best they know<br />

how. For some, that meant clinging to the myths of the past.<br />

For others it meant opening hearts and minds. And for Helen<br />

with her personal struggles, it meant doing a little bit of both.<br />

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4 <strong>Albemarle</strong> <strong>Tradewinds</strong> December 2015 albemarletradewinds.com

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