Emily Whaley (1911–1998)

Miss Whaley was a charming woman so it is no surprise that her memoir would be charming as well. One episode I remember her description of the teen dances where an elderly woman raucously played on piano "60 Minute Man," a popular R&B song that is still a Carolina beach music classic. She was oblivious of the song's meaning. Miss Whaley was famously opinionated. So is her book. Though I am a Charlestonian on my father's side I did not know Miss Whaley from Charleston, but as a summer resident in North Carolina's "Little Charleston," Flat Rock where she was a member of our congregation at St John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church. Very fond of her and her lively memoir. She is missed.… (más)

Miss Whaley was a charming woman so it is no surprise that her memoir would be charming as well. One episode I remember her description of the teen dances where an elderly woman raucously played on piano "60 Minute Man," a popular R&B song that is still a Carolina beach music classic. She was oblivious of the song's meaning. Miss Whaley was famously opinionated. So is her book. Though I am a Charlestonian on my father's side I did not know Miss Whaley from Charleston, but as a summer resident in North Carolina's "Little Charleston," Flat Rock where she was a member of our congregation at St John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church. Very fond of her and her lively memoir. She is missed.… (más)

Miss Whaley was a charming woman so it is no surprise that her memoir would be charming as well. One episode I remember her description of the teen dances where an elderly woman raucously played on piano "60 Minute Man," a popular R&B song that is still a Carolina beach music classic. She was oblivious of the song's meaning. Miss Whaley was famously opinionated. So is her book. Though I am a Charlestonian on my father's side I did not know Miss Whaley from Charleston, but as a summer resident in North Carolina's "Little Charleston," Flat Rock where she was a member of our congregation at St John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church. Very fond of her and her lively memoir. She is missed.… (más)