Maggy Simony, 92-year-old Florida resident, wants to bring back the Ladies’ Bridge Lunch, a tradition popular in the early and mid-20th century. David Scott, a professor of leisure studies at Texas A&M University who wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on bridge, “calls Ms. Simony a ‘lay anthropologist’ who has unearthed relics of an era when leisure meant seeing friends, not watching TV or surfing the Internet. ‘It wasn’t about competition,’ he says. ‘It was about community.'”
Click here to read more about Ms. Simony, “the self-appointed curator of the cuisine and customs surrounding the ladies’ bridge lunch” and her interest in the pastime of “sociable bridge.”
