Over the past few years, this column has featured the stories of senior adults who are enjoying full and exciting lives. Writers, dancers, painters and bloggers are some that have been featured.
But this month presents the first “royal” to appear in this space. Easter Jenkins is the 2025 Queen of Orange Mound Community Services Center, better known as OMCSC.
As befits a queen, Easter (in her early 60s) arrived at this interview wearing a crown. She described it as a Zulu hat that she handcrafted herself. She explained the construction of the cardboard base and how she had added strips of colorful handwoven African cloth, which an OMCSC member had brought back from Ghana.
The hat was a perfect symbol of a woman who not only celebrates her status as queen of the center but honors her African heritage as well…