Miss Peaches was the stage name of Elsie Higgs Griner Jr., (July 15, 1924-April 7, 2011) a comedian and singer. Although Miss Griner was white, Miss Peaches spoke in a broad African-American dialect. She did not perform in blackface

Blackface

Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used in minstrel shows, and later vaudeville, in which performers create a stereotyped caricature of a black person. The practice gained popularity during the 19th century and contributed to the proliferation of stereotypes such as the "happy-go-lucky darky...

, however.

Her most notable recording was "Callin' Moody Field," which described the lives of African-American airmen at Moody Air Force Base near Valdosta, Georgia

Valdosta, Georgia

Valdosta is the county seat of Lowndes County, Georgia, United States. It is the principal city of the Valdosta Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of 54,518. The Valdosta metropolitan area, according to the 2010 estimate, has a population of 139,588...

. "Callin' Moody Field" was a regional rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 hit in the late 1950s. In the performance, Miss Peaches is talking to the base telephone operator

Telephone operator

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 and trying to reach her boyfriend: "You doesn't know Cathead. Well, honey, just stick yo head out the window and holler for Cathead. He'll come." Miss Griner usually performed with her brother, blues pianist Geunie Griner, who died in 1975.

She and Geunie later turned to political comedy, releasing an LP album

LP album

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 of political satire

Political satire

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 called The Focus on: The South, Where the REaction Is!, on Judges' Chamber records (1966). Also on the Judges' Chamber label,probably 1975, was the Safari Down South lp that showed her riding a llama on the cover.

From 1961 to 1966, she and Geunie published The Nashville Herald, a weekly newspaper in her hometown of Nashville, Georgia

Nashville, Georgia

Nashville is a city in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. The population was 4,697 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Berrien County...

. She twice won the Georgia Press Association's premier recognition for her weekly column, The Focus On:.

She was married to USAF Major Hugh D. Alderman, who is now deceased, and, in 1985, she changed her given name to Annabel.

In 1999, Mercer University

Mercer University

Mercer University is an independent, private, coeducational university with a Baptist heritage located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Mercer is the only university of its size in the United States that offers programs in eleven diversified fields of study: liberal arts, business, education, music,...

 Press published her first novel

Novel

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, Family Man. She was nominated for the Georgia Author of the Year Award

Georgia Author of the Year Award

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 and for the Townsend Prize for Fiction in 2000. Her poems have appeared in a variety of magazines and she garnered first place in the Southeastern Writers Association's poetry competition in 2001. A collection of her poetry

Poetry

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was published in 1996 under the title Lost Loves Don't Count.