It’s always fun to find a new piece of Caroline Ferriday memorabilia, especially when it had been printed in my adopted hometown of Atlanta’s newspaper, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
The text reads: “The photograph on this page is that of Miss Carolyn Woolsey Ferriday, debutante daughter of Mrs. Henry McKeen Ferriday, who was chosen as the ideal of the Poppy Girl.” She is one of the young women of fine American ancestry who willingly consented to peddle the Memorial Day poppies. Millions of poppies to be used in celebration of Memorial Day here are being made by little children–inmates of orphan asylums of New Jersey, New York and elsewhere.”
Inmates of orphan asylums? We’ve come a long way since 1921.
Just read novel called The Lilac Sisters based on actual facts of CarolineFerriday. …goggle her name to see what the house and gardens look like I was not disappointed. …hope to make there someday
Hope you do, too, Ann! It’s amazing.