TUS Blog

With fall in the air, I thought it fitting to share a favorite fall recipe, Granny Reese's Pumpkin Bread.  Granny Reese (my great-grandfather was Reese) was my great-grandmother, she was Mary Jane DeGraffenreid to others outside the family.  She was born in 1888, the oldest daughter of 10 children and lived to be 95 years old.  A seamstress extraordinaire, she sewed clothes for others, often with only a picture from a catalog as a pattern, as the story goes.  She also produced beautiful quilts, my favorite being the Wedding Ring Quilt made as a wedding gift for her daughter, my grandmother.  She also mastered tatting...