Whether to a grocery store or a wedding, wherever Marina Sexton goes she’s got a hat on her head. An ever-growing collection has led to some hats being seldom worn, so the lid enthusiast donated some to Grenfell's theatre program. By WS_DianeCrocker
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSIt was purple, with a big, long feather in it, and it sparked a lifelong fascination with hats.
Marina Sexton uses hat trees to display some of her fancy hats in her Norris Point home. - Contributed - Contributed“I like the way they look and they’re great for bad hair days,” she said with a laugh.Sexton remembers having about 20 in her collection when she moved to Norris point some 40-odd years ago. She was going out and the person said she was with told her she couldn’t wear a hat because people would be looking at her.
Lately, she’s added a few hats from Portugal to her collection that she’s bought during trips there with her husband, Vince McCarthy. The couple own the Sugar Hill Inn in Norris Point and Sexton said McCarthy will never tell her that she has enough hats. So, her home has become almost a gallery with art installations of hats. Many are hung from hooks around her porch and others, her fancy ones, are displayed on two hat stands in her living room.
She ended up with two piles, with about 69 hats and three fascinators, some more than 30 years old, landing in the donate pile.
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