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Where do aprons go to retire? A tiny museum in Mississippi
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The Apron Museum in Iuka, Mississippi, houses some 6,000 aprons dating back to the 1860s.
PHOTO: ROBERT RAUSCH/NYTIMES
Maggie Hennessy
IUKA, Mississippi – One July day in 2011, the Apron Museum in Iuka, Mississippi, received a small bib apron shaped like a rabbit, its frame embroidered with front paws mischievously digging into two sewn-on pockets.
The apron arrived with a typed letter from its 81-year-old owner, Ms Nelda Young, who lived in Jacksonville, Florida.
