Latest column from Susie! Titled “Wait! Prior to tossing me into a weathered hatbox...read me first?,” this installment of Old Type Writer is a cheeky (and loving) look at genealogy, family, animal friends, journalism, politics, and tolerance. As Talk of the Town editor Jennifer Zartman Romano observes, “Columnist Susie Duncan Sexton shares stories of late night conversations with distant cousins -- and a revelation that she may be the illegitimate great great great great granddaughter of George Washington in her latest installment of Old Type Writer.” Here’s an excerpt from the piece …

“I can barely handle the present, so delving into the past eludes me these days. My newest tee-shirt reads: ‘Past, Present, Future...I AM SO Tense’! And of course, should I perform an archae-ILLOGICAL dig, I fear that I might confirm that Ida May may have been correct that I am indeed the bastard progeny of an unhitched General Washington. Miss May once specialized in organizing summertime family reunions of all manner of kin -- joyously convened inside a variety of gazebos dotting an endless series of pastoral grassy lawns all about North Carolina-- for the express purpose of seeking ‘buried roots’--I forgot to ever inquire exactly HOW she happened upon our aforementioned relationship to the father of our country. I'd often researched that George fired...blanks? What a thrill to converse with free-thinker Ida who seemed to me a kind of template for the type of human being whom we should elect as president one day …”

Read the rest here: http://talkofthetownwc.com/oldtypewriter/2016/03/wait_prior_to_tossing_me_into_.html (and be sure to click the hyperlinked words in “blue” sprinkled throughout for various audio-visual surprises!)