Our Community Elders Tea Is In Full Swing!

I took a few minutes away from our Community Elders Tea to sit and think about this special event.
You see, as part of our 100-Year Celebration, we invited "wisdom warriors" from the community to join us here at the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library. We wanted to honor these special people, who have so much to offer us regarding their life experiences and events of the past.
In fact, one of the things we did to decorate the Willcoxon Auditorium was to put pictures from the past up on the wall. We called the wall of pictures "Our Memory Wall" and added other little signs that said "Do you remember us?" It's been interesting to watch everyone line up in front of the pictures and say, "Oh, that's . . ." and watch smiles cross their faces as they remember
when and who.
Of course, we did serve tea. Russian Tea, to be exact. And small cheesecake bites, fudge, and other candies, as well as Melody's miracle muffins with orange butter and raspberry butter, pigs in a blanket, and toothpicks holding bites of ham, cheese,
and olives.
There are people at the Tea who have been in Moultrie for only a short time, a year or less, and those who grew up here and stayed. There are the kindhearted nurse aides who have brought their charges from the nearby nursing home. There is the woman who proudly said she drove the bookmobile when she was only 18 years old. People are talking to each other like family and laughing about different events they remembered as children when they would come to the library. And of course, there are the people who work here at the library and are enjoying telling about their many years
of service.
All in all, I'd say the event is going very well. Everyone enjoys being honored in one way or another. And what better way to say thank you to our "wisdom warriors" than to bring them all together at the library, one of the main community centers of any town. A place where wisdom is always honored.