Britney Sue Aube: Baptist Corners’ Renaissance woman

Britney Sue Aube: Baptist Corners’ Renaissance woman

Every Mothers’ Day weekend for the last 12 years, Britney Sue Aube has been a fixture at Baptist Corners, selling hanging baskets from a wagon for her namesake business: BritSue’s Greenhouse. Aube has worked with plants and flowers her entire life. “I started at Gecewicz Farm and Greenhouse when I was still in diapers,” she said. “My father worked for Trudy and Gus and he brought us along. We plucked geraniums and made potting soil.”

Laughing to learn: Charlotter Rookie Manning  on a lifetime of learning, laughing and teaching

Laughing to learn: Charlotter Rookie Manning on a lifetime of learning, laughing and teaching

Rookie Manning was not always Rookie Manning. She arrived at Ursuline Academy, an all-girl Catholic high school in Massachusetts, one mischievous Mary O’Rourke. Her friends, perhaps realizing that they could not change her troublemaking habits, changed her name.