Ruth B. Melchet: Celebrating mothers’ ways

Regarding the May 6 features article “The heart of the kitchen”: Andrea Weigl once again led us into the lives of our contemporaries and their forefathers’ domain.

As a former New Yorker, I felt that she opened up a whole new world of North Carolinians of the last century and permitted us a glimpse of how this country grew to its present stature.

Thanks for giving us small vignettes of how the average housewife coped with difficult circumstances, overcoming hardships and prevailed triumphantly in raising families that are proud to have learned their lessons at their mother’s and grandmother’s knees.

What better way to celebrate Mother’s Day.

This story was originally published May 9, 2015 at 4:00 PM with the headline "Ruth B. Melchet: Celebrating mothers’ ways."