Pub games an old woman with a clay pipe in her mouth, or subsequently a ball on a stick. The object was for players to throw sticks at the head in order to break the pipe. The game bears some resemblance to a coconut shy, or skittles. Today, the game of Aunt Sally is still played as a pub game in Oxfordshire. The ball is on a short plinth about 4 inches (10 cm) high, and is known as a 'dolly'. The dolly is placed on a dog-legged metal spike and players throw sticks or short battens at the dolly, trying to
The Heart of a Woman first album, "Miss Calypso", was released; it was reissued as a CD in 1995. According to Als, Angelou sang and performed calypso music because it was popular at the time, and not to develop as an artist. As described in "The Heart of a Woman", Angelou eventually gave up performing for a career as a writer and poet. According to Chuck Foster, who wrote the liner notes in "Miss Calypso's" 1995 reissue, her calypso music career is "given short shrift" and dismissed in the book. The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, As a lone bird, soft