Happenings Cookies and Calico Author:David Williamson Obstacles and hindrances often separate ideas and dreams from invention and success. Occasionally, people overcome the problems, and bring out new products and start new businesses. Dorothy Ferguson was one such person. While laid up with a broken leg and ankle, this a grandmother from Greeley, Colorado, invented frozen cookie dough, Dottie's Qu... more »ickie Cookies. Her success was rapid and wide spread. Packages of her cookies first available in just one store in Greeley, Colorado, were within a few months, available in 30,000 stores nationwide.
Overnight, Dorothy Ferguson became America's cookie tycoon, and nationally known businessperson and media celebrity. She told the New York Sales Executive Club, "Where, but in America, could a very simple mother and homemaker take an idea and have the opportunity I have had? Fairy tales do come true, it can happen to you."
Ferguson's second career was her Calico Kate's Pantry Shop, in Glen Haven Colorado. Her shop became a vacation destination for special gifts and pantry items. She expanded and had shops in Scottsdale, Arizona, and in Frontierland, Disneyland, in California.
Happenings - Cookies and Calico is a biography of a businessperson, inventor, store operator, public speaker,and newspaper columnist. It is a guide to success in business and life. It is also a great love story.« less