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That was also the year the churchwomen made 100 dried flower arrangements. The Reverend John Frizell drove the women with their flowers in a truck to Seven Corners in Arlington to sell them. “We made more money than ever before, but we ran into the flu epidemic,” Flossie recalls.
As years went by, the women continued to double production—the men decided to double the prices.
This past fall, the men and women working on the famous dried flower arrangements created 462 of them. By noon of the first day, they were almost all cleared out. The volunteers had to steer clear of the crowds. By Sunday there were only about 50 arrangements left for the second day of the house tour.
Flossie thought at first the flower sale would be a fad. But it’s excelerated each year until it bursts into
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