Gardner B. Jolley's Very Tender Sewing Box Chair for Mother, with Portrait, 1914 framed theorem painting Long ago the exterior spine

Long ago the exterior spine was recovered with a fabric strip

In 1955 she and Foster established their own pottery studio in Mahone Bay

and in absence of a good surface to write on is really the perfect thing

One page per letter

" which make it seem all the more like the perfect gift for one farmer to give another

Gardner B. Jolley's Very Tender Sewing Box Chair for Mother, with Portrait, 1914 framed theorem painting Long ago the exterior spineA tender and heartfelt thing if I ever did see one. Surely it is Nellie Leora, mother to Gardner (I take that as a G), whose photograph is framed with wreath of braided threads at the center of chair back captured seated in a Victorian wicker chair, with book open in her hands, and very intense gaze! The rest of the chair seems all about Gardner, who embroidered the date on one side, 1914; her own age on the other, 24; and her name front and center,