Who Was Victoria Silkee — Barbara L. Wyckoff

Can Mere Words Preserve a Bygone Era
And a Woman who was so Refined
She Became a Madam by Design
To Protect an Estate Forgotten by Time

The year is 1915 and Grace Irene Anderson had been given an assignment to write an article for an Ozark periodical. This was about a parcel of land and a home hidden away by the heavy foliage of the Southern Missouri Ozarks which time could have continued to overlook. That was until it came under the greedy eyes of the city fathers in the burgeoning city becoming a prime location for city expansion. Madam Silkee as she preferred to be known simply said, “No.”