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Article: Monona woman ships donated sewing machines to the needy
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- Colombo Times
- Article date:
- May 2, 2009
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Colombo, May 2 -- Monona's Margaret Jankowski met a woman on a recent trip to New Orleans who lost her sewing machine to Hurricane Katrina. It was a loss that went beyond material matters.
The woman, whose first name was Marilyn, told Jankowski how as a young black girl she was barred from trying on clothes in stores in New Orleans. So she and her sister would sketch the clothes from afar and take the sketches to their grandmother who would use them to make patterns. Her grandmother, in fact, sewed clothes for all of the family's 12 children. It was a kind of self-sufficiency that Marilyn continued for decades until the hurricane washed away her possessions, including her sewing machine.
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