Locals to meet at and learn of Aiken home’s history during tea
A house becomes a home when the memories flow freely and capture the heart.
One Aiken home, located on Brandy Road, has become much more than a home for generations of owners, and the memories are being shared with the community.
On Wednesday, Jan. 20, the Aiken Women’s Heart Board will host its annual tea at the home of Jack and Janet Reed; during the tea, tickets to the 2010 “Aiken’s Most Excellent Adventure” will be on sale and available for pickup.
In the early 1950s, the home had a clear view across Whiskey Road to the third fairway of the Palmetto Golf Club. At the time the home was owned by Mamie and Arthur Foreman Sr. and Louise Cassels and family from 1952 until 2001.
“After the ‘Perry Como Show,’ Grandmother and I would sit in huge rockers on the upstairs balcony porch, sing ‘Catch a Falling Star’ and spot white golf balls in the dark grass below. In the morning, we knew just where to find the white ‘nuggets’ and would gather them up for my Uncle Fielding,” said Margaret Foreman, granddaughter of Mamie and Arthur. “They (Mamie and Louise) made life look so simple – the blue-and-white kitchen with the original bottles of Coca-Cola in the refrigerator, the drawer with a dent from opening the Cokes on the handle, the German chocolate cake, the flour bin, the huge pantry, tea cakes, ham biscuits and sweet tea on the counter. All visitors to this home were greeted like movie stars and treated like royalty.”
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