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By Helen Williams ■ * V * Special to the Rappahannock News
Long, long ago - well, exactly 50 ■ * years ago, but that seems like a long time ago, the women of Trinity Episcopal Church were looking for 'ft-way to raise money for good caus; and to help pay for the parish ’ i hall construction. I*-* * Inspiration came when the late ^Flossie Williamson returned back from Williamsburg with a dried bouquet.
“We can do better than this,” she said to Dotsie Davis and Lois Snead. The first year, the three sold 35 arrangements at Woodward and Lothrop, but their arrangements sold better than Woodies’, so they weren’t asked back.
The next year the arrangements were displayed and sold at the Rappahannock Garden Club’s house tour and exhibit on drying and arranging..
Over the years since 1956, the drying of flowers and then arranging them has continued, and many of the founders have had their places taken, some by their daughters and granddaughters, and others by friends and others interested in the transformations of seasonal flowers and weeds into money for good deeds. Thousands and thousands of arrangements have been made, the average of about 250-300 per year, bringing beauty and nature into countless homes.
And many are the recipients of the profits - women’s shelters, boys’ homes, churches far and near, local and regional needs of all kind, emergency help on national and global scales..
But the earning of money for charity is only one of the good things that have occurred over the years. Fellowship is probably the most important - as the arrangers help, praise, and tease each other in the parish hall amidst wires, foam, vases, foliage and innumerable dried blossoms. The final, days, when the completed arrangements are displayed for sale, now under the watchful eyes of Lois Snead bring real feelings of a job well done to those for whom the Trinity Parish Hall has become a second home for several weeks.
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