Mother's Day - May 11, 2025 with Marcia Braswell


 What an incredible afternoon! I spent a couple hours sitting and chatting with this incredible woman who was my first music education teacher. I, and all my schoolmates, were privileged to have such an incredibly talented music teacher, choral director, and school musical director.

Maeystown was uncharacteristically quiet this Sunday afternoon, so there was little foot traffic into Georgia Maeys, the corner store that in my youth, carried candy, canned goods, socks, and I recall even getting a cistern hand crank. Marcia now has an antique store inside and runs the Corner George Bed & Breakfast with her husband, David.

Marcia is now retired from teaching, but keeps very busy as an inkeeper, organist at the UCC church in Maeystown, and music director of the community theater company, MASC.

What an incredible blessing this woman has been in my life. I am so thankful for the gift of music she fostered in my life.

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