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Olivia Burton shows off her well-equipped sewing room in her family's home in Carthage.

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Dressing Downton: Carthage Teen Recreates Costume

The back roads of Carthage seem a ­million miles from Yorkshire, England, where — during World War I — electricity and telephones were still curiosities, women could not vote, and fortune-hunters thrived. Yet people are people, and 16-year-old Olivia Kathryn Burton feels an affinity for the occupants of “Downton Abbey.”

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