Carol Niswonger sets up tables for a public meal at Madisonville's First United Methodist Church.Carol Niswonger spent 31 years as a school teacher before retiring in 2002. "I've been a teacher my whole life. I can't get over it." She works part-time at the Adolescent Day Treatment Center in Madisonville, a school for students with disciplinary problems. Niswonger oversees the computer lab where students use on-line learning programs.Carol Niswonger, left, and J. E. Barlow attend a training seminar on on-line learning and student evaluation tools at the Hopkins County Board of Education. Niswonger works part-time at, and Barlow is the principal of, the Adolescent Day Treatment Center in Madisonville, a school for students with a history of discliplinary problems.After acquiring several new items at an auction, Carol Niswonger, 58, adds them to the burgeoning collection in her garage. Niswonger makes crafts from items purchased at auctions and sells them at her stall at Main Street Antiques.Carol Niswonger examines an umbrella she purchased at an auction. She plans to use it next time she is asked to impersonate Dolly Madison, wife of Madisonville's namesake and U.S. President James Madison. Niswonger has appeared as Dolly Madison in parades and ceremonies around town.Carol Niswonger, 58, tends to the flowers in front of First United Methodist Church in Madisonville. "I want it to be nice for Sunday", she says.Carol Niswonger looks on as a police car speeds by in front of her house.Carol Niswonger, foreground, visits her mother, 79 year-old Rose Anna Niswonger, nearly every day since Rose Anna began suffering from chronic pain, limiting her mobility.Carol Niswonger drives to the Madisonville YMCA in the late afternoon.Carol Niswonger tours the abandoned upper floor of the Hopkins County Board of Education building, which she attended as a student in seventh and eighth grade, when the building was the site of Seminary Junior High School.
