Happy Groundhogs Day!
My mother, Vivian Ruthe Utterback Eckles Gillette, was born sharing this funny holiday, and she reveled in it. Her mother called her a "Corker" on a picture postcard sent to her dad, Thomas J. Hicks in Taney County Missouri. I had to look up the meaning of that idiom from 111 years ago. It means an outstanding person or thing; one that is excellent or remarkable. The synonyms include: beaut, bee's knees, cat's meow, jim-dandy, peach, standout and sweetheart. This is the photo on that card taken in 1919, Kansas City, Missouri
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