LET'S GO TO THE COURTHOUSE 'CAUSE IT'S THE HAPPIN'N PLACE

By Sandy Black

LET­'S GO TO THE COURTHOUSE ­'CAUSE IT­'S THE HAPPIN'­N PLACE. Where can you go to church in the morning, be baptized in a flowing spring, get married, get divorced, get adopted, pay your taxes and either watch a hangin or be hung by a noose hangin­ out back‑ Just a day in the life of an Old Courthouse. The Courthouses and the resident cats shar

• Language: English
• Publisher: MainSpring Books
• Release date: May 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781641337854

Sandy Black

Sandy Black is a recognized expert on knitting, both by hand and machine. As designer and director of the successful Sandy Black Original Knits label from the late 1970s to the 1980s, Sandy sold her innovative fashion knitwear to prestigious stores in the USA, Japan, Italy, Germany, Australia, Canada and the UK. After twenty years in business, she became a university lecturer, leading undergraduate and postgraduate academic programmes in textiles and fashion in Brighton and London. She has written pioneering books on knitwear in fashion, the socio-cultural history and technical evolution of knitting. Sandy is currently Professor of Fashion and Textile Design and Technology in the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.

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This is a work of fiction. names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

ISBN 978-1-64133-785-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022908886

2022.05.13

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Adoption Day

Since 1877, the stately, three story, Second Empire Style Courthouse and it’s handsome clock tower continues to dominate the downtown area of Nob City. Today, he watched a little, red headed girl in a neatly starched, polka dot dress. Her little shoes are white as snow with a tiny strap just below the lace topped anklets. She quietly sits with her cherished cat, Kitty Klover, a tailless Manx who is taking a nap beside her on the courthouse steps.

The Nob City courthouse smiled because today something good for a change is going to happen. The big, sterile, dalle wood courtroom will have Judge Jentras presiding over the adoption of Andy Brensen.

Nob City Courthouse said to himself, I see KC, a gangly boy in his well worn, hand me down bib overalls with his usual red flannnel shirt that is always ‘sort of’ tucked in, coming through the newly painted, black wrought iron fencing that frames my beautiful lawn Being a nosy little character, he is investigating why this little girl is sitting alone with a cat on the steps.

You wanna play Jacks? Little Andy looked down at her sleeping friend, Kitty Klover and asked, What’s Jacks? Kitty Klover opened one eye and said, It’s a dumb game where you throw a little red ball up in the air and try to pick up little wierd looking metal things before the ball hits the ground.

Little Andy looked at the boy holding the Jacks and said I don’t know how to play that game. "OK, well I’m KC and why are you sitting on the courthouse steps anyway? Especially with a