Bessie Kinlore

Bessie kept the family fed and the family stories alive in equal measure. Her kitchen ledger — part cookbook, part diary — recorded three decades of birthdays, weddings, and Sunday dinners.

Birthdays and anniversaries for Bessie Kinlore are marked on the home page in their week, and their portrait hangs in the Meadow Branch album in our galleries. If you hold a photograph, letter, or story that belongs with this profile, send it through our submit pages — the archivists add new material every month.