![]() ![]() Ma Charles and Miss Trotter have a long standing rivalry going on and quickly discover that Vonetta is the perfect person to carry their mean-spirited insults and messages back and forth across the creek each day. There's not much going on at Ma Charles's house - no working TV, no radio - and after Delphine puts her foot down about washing, starching and ironing her great grandmother's cotton sheets, each day the girls cross the creek to hang out with their Cousin JimmyTrotter, 15, and his great grandmother, Miss Trotter, Ma Charles's sister Ruth. So now, the girls are off for the summer to visit Big Ma, Uncle Darnell, Ma Charles, their great grandmother and Caleb, the hound dog in Alabama - by Greyhound (remember, it's 1969, people did that then).Įveryone is glad to see the girls down there, but Vonetta is still angry at Uncle D for what he did with the money they had saved for Jackson Five tickets. Their dad has remarried, but their stepmother has been pretty sick lately, especially in the morning. The girls are still living in the house on Herkimer Street in Brooklyn, NY. ![]() ![]() Fictionally speaking, a little more than a year has passed since we last visited with the Gaither sisters, Delphine, 12, Vonetta, 10, and Fern, 8. ![]()
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