"Queen Anne" holds court

Nov 18, 2021

Anne Churchwell Stokes never knew her mother. Adopted as an infant she became the heir to a chain of small department stores in Georgia and Florida. Learning the business at her father’s side, she travelled with him to New York, Paris, and Cuba! She also learned a keen sense of civic obligation in a town plagued by poverty, my home town of Albany, GA. The mom to two gay sons speaks directly to evolving views of LGBTQ people in the deep south.