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“Lifestyles have changed
... We have more to pick and
choose from in life... But,
many of the things our clubs
do are things homemakers
will do forever. ”
— Mary Priest
Amissville Extension Homemaker
with friends, Mrs. Riley says she has learned a wealth of things, even a trade, through a club designed to help educate women, thereby educating the family and the community, during and after the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Transportation was just developing in many parts of the country, and access to the outside world through the mass media was poor. “Some people out here did not even have radios,” Mrs. Riley said, adding that the need for the clubs was tremendous and they generated great interest. “People needed
See HOMEMAKERS, p. 12
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