Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats director of the publishing company Faber and Faber. Morley's daughter, Susanna Smithson, uncovered the poem as part of the BBC Two programme "Arena: T.S. Eliot", broadcast that night as part of the BBC Poetry Season. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It is the basis for the musical "Cats". Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s, and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his godchildren. They were collected
Possum Trot Church Possum Trot Church Possum Trot Church was built around 1850 in Rome, Georgia, United States, and was appropriated by Martha Berry as a Sunday school in 1900. The school grew to become Berry College. The original church building still stands on the Berry campus. The Possum Trot Church is known as the "cradle of Berry College." It was first built around the 1850s. The old church was appropriated by Martha Berry for the Possum Trot Sunday School in 1900. Possum Trot was a school from 1900 to 1954. The needs of the people at Possum Trot, and places like it,