pic Weaving is her hobby one Mat has developed into a means of helping out with the family budget in these days of stretch ing a fixed retirement income. Retires Ironi Work Mrs Pollard married .1 native of Buckingham county. They met in Kansas Cuy, Kan . and lived there most 1 their lives. Mr. Pollard worked with deeds and abstracts un»:l lie retired about three years as.o After retiring, they came to Buckingham county, bought an old home on Route 15. settled down to so some of those things that they had dreamed about d - :11c for years. They have fixed up their old 1: mo and opened a small antique shop, where they also sell some of Mrs Pollard's weaving and oth . locally-made items. We opened up the antique shop with things that we had collected during our married life.'' M Pollard remarked. "It was sure difficult to sell that first item let me tell y m " She look up weaving two yea is ago. this July It was an aeciden* One Lesson On time while she and Mr Pi 1 laid were looking for antique- n Lexington, she met the fornu r Miss Julia Graves, a weaving < u tnuhias! She took one lesson Itotn M: y. Griip- and decided to take up the craft a- a hobby. T -day. she has two loom 111 one if the front rooms of their home. One of them is a four harness loom, which she can use to make any piece of matt; al Rom the size of a necktie m 45 inches in width. Right now lie is ai ::ig a Whig Rose f eerie! in mu key 1 erj nattern which dates Continued on page 3
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