Somewhere in Wilcox County, women in their sixties and seventies are digging through closets, past the Christmas decorations and tax returns from the Reagan administration, searching for that one photograph—the one where they’re seventeen, sash diagonal across their chest, tiara catching the Friday night lights. The school district has called them home.

This September, Wilcox County Schools announced what they’re calling a “new tradition,” though it reads more like a reunion for a very specific kind of royalty. The district is summoning its former Homecoming Queens from 1963 to 1979, inviting them to return to the field where they once waved from convertibles and accepted roses from nervous boys in letter jackets.

The school district is asking these women to dust off their memories and j

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