When I first posted this photograph on the Vanishing South Georgia Facebook page, I was amazed at how much positive response it got from viewers. It was a cool day and when I told this lady (Kay Skipper, known as Mama Kay and loved by all in Chauncey) that I was taking her picture she laughed, saying that she was just the “crazy woman who rides her bike in 20-degree weather.” I think she’s pretty smart myself, but as one Facebook viewer wrote: “Here’s to crazy ladies everywhere.“
Kay later wrote to say: “I am that crazy lady. Just an update. Had to have a new bicycle. Rode that one to death. Had double knee replacement in Oct. 2016. Back on bicycle in Two 1/2 weeks. Still pedaling and loving every minute of it...”
In the early 1950s I collected and sold pine cones here.
I am that crazy kady. Just an update. Had to have a new bicycle. Rode that one to death. Had double knee replacement in Oct. 2016. Back on bicycle in Two 1/2 weeks. Still pedaling and loving every minute of it. Lady not kady.
Yep! That’s Mama Kay Skipper! So well-loved!
Sweet Mama Kay!!