My Cell Phone Is Very, Very Old.

The Post and Courier was celebrating its Bicentennial in 2003 and asked me to portray Lord Ashley Cooper.
Charleston old timers will remember Frank B. Gilbreth, a beloved local writer, who used that famous Cooper name over his Doing The Charleston column for more than 40 years. (He and his sister also wrote "Cheaper By The Dozen.")
I called around and found a theater company which had performed 1776 a few years ago and they let me borrow the coat, vest, ruffled shirt and collar and short pants. A local dance place sold me white tights and I found the perfect wig and even picked up some fake buckles to attach to my black sneakers.
Yes. I know that Ashley Cooper dates back to the 1600s but nobody had recently done a play for that period.
Labels: 40-year columnist, cell phones, column, Doing The Charleston, Lord Ashley Cooper, shoe buckles, white tights, wig
1 Comments:
That is perfect!
My mother loved that Cheaper by the Dozen book...probably because she had 8 of us.
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