You Can Take It with You

Travel with Lucia Peel Powe in her long and busy life as she travels from Macon, Georgia, to the Miss America Pageant to TV’s Romper Room — and beyond — in this collection of reminiscences, wry observations, and essays both humorous and serious that span nearly seven decades.

In these pages, you will meet:

A famous actor
A stuttering wedding singer
A wisecracking priest
Ezra Pound’s former nurse
Baby Jesus as a light bulb
Several beauty queens
Four daughters
Three stepdaughters
Two husbands