Their Weapons Against the Effects of Aging: Friendship, and Some Fancy Footwork
BEAUFORT, N.C. — Martha Barnes’ home was buzzing. It was a Saturday in little Beaufort, North Carolina, time to get ready for the town’s Mardi Gras parade, and women were zigzagging around the house, applying makeup, laughing and calling out repeatedly for the Fireball Cinnamon Whisky sitting on the kitchen counter. “If you want to say something,” a woman hollered above the din, “you better scream it!” Barnes’ home is not a sorority house — she is 86 years old. But, for the day, it was something