Aunt Patsy: A Collection of Favorite Columns, Advice, Poems and Recipes

Compiled by Carol Peterson Duke and Robert Ernest Duke Published by Elmwood Press, Staunton, Virginia, 2011 155 pages, paperback Mattie Woodson Powell (Mrs. Robert E. Trice) wrote a column for The Central Virginian in Louisa County under the pen name of “Aunt Patsy” for almost three decades before her death in 1949. The delightful column, full of wit, advice to the lovelorn, recipes, jokes and poetry (including her own), delighted readers in her day, just as it will now.