ABSTRACT
First of all, it is important to pronounce her name correctly: Askew, like ask you, more or less. The other way, askew, meaning out of line, awry, would certainly describe Cousinsville in those candy-striped days. But never Miss Dorothea Askew, although she weighed over three hundred pounds and stood taller than six feet when she fell on the ice that winter in the 1930s and couldn’t get up for the life of her.
