Summary

Chapter 21 documents the efforts of the two Garden Clubs (Natchez Garden Club and Pilgrimage Garden Club) to integrate. The truth is that this integration will not occur anytime soon. There is one sign of progress, though: Debbie Cosey and her husband Gregory have remodeled the slave quarters at Concord into a bed-and-breakfast, and these quarters will now be a Pilgrimage Garden Club tour site. The importance of this tour site cannot be understated: "Regina's board had now voted to include Concord Quarters as a Pilgrimage tour home, to be advertised in all the leaflets and marketing, and to receive a share of ticket sales. In the small, self-contained world of Natchez, this was big news--the first African American tour home" (247). Meanwhile, Tableaux is falling apart. Regina Charboneau declares that the Pilgrimage Garden Club is withdrawing from Tableaux and hosting its own "A Royal...