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post directional signs throughout the county. Boy Scouts help park cars at the tour houses.
And though the dried flower sale is primarily the work of the churchwomen, churchmen have also played a part through the years.
Mrs. Davis’s husband George, Rappahannock’s former Commonwealth’s Attorney, was drafted to help with wiring the arrangements. After watching the ladies for a while, he began sorting flowers into piles of the colors he liked. His wife suggested that he make an arrangement of his own. “A friend bought it sight unseen. She didn’t want him to be embarrassed,” Mrs. Davis related. Then the owner of George’s handiwork was so delighted with her purchase that she ordered five from him the following year. “He was proud as a peacock! He started collecting from Vermont to Florida -- everywhere we went that summer.”
The ladies had been selling their arrangements for $7.50. But George looked at all the effort and said “No way,” Mrs. Davis remembered. “He put $15 on his.” And they sold. He was convinced that the churchwomen were underpricing. “He checked florist prices and found they were getting six or seven times more than we were.” But he couldn’t convince the pricing committee to up the charge. Not one to give up easily, George “snuck in the night before and doubled the prices!” Mrs. Davis recalled. “The women were irate and furious, but we sold just as many and made twice as much money!”
In the 30 years since the Dried Flower Sale and House Tour began, the event has become important to the community as well as to Trinity Church, Mrs. Davis said. “It’s turned into a fall festival. Other groups now have activities on the same day.”
There’s satisfaction in drying flowers and creating beautiful arrangements. There’s satisfaction in making money for the church, Mrs. Davis acknowledged. But the greatest satisfaction comes, she concluded, from the fellowship that has developed among people working together.
Ed. note: This article is reprinted with kind permission from the Trinity Times, the newsletter of the Bromfield Parish.
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