History
Susan Davis has told the story so many times now it has taken on the aura of myth--how one afternoon in 1985 she was visiting with her 95-year-old grandmother, rummaging as they often did through the elderly woman's life-time accumulation of keepsakes and treasures. That afternoon they delved into her many boxes of buttons and Susan, who had recently left her public relations job in Baton Rouge for farm life, saw in the contents of one box the possibilities of a new career and cottage industry. Plucking a sparkling jet glass from the jumble, she held it to her ear and said,