Models included Lori Johnson, Suzy Carlton, Pam Fleming, Mary Ellen Meade, Nancy Oakley, Petey Shoemaker, Bern Rubin and Joyce Grau.
Funds raised will benefit the upkeep of the Woman’s Exchange, which began in 1922.
A resident who had recently moved to the Sandhills from Massachusetts suggested that this organization might help to increase the local household income by providing a market for items that farm women could make at home.
Thus the Sandhills Woman's Exchange began on the porch of the Way House on
Peedee Road in Knollwood, later moving to its current location.
Today the Exchange is run by an executive board, elected every two years. Seven committee chairmen also serve for two years.
Goods are left on consignment and marked up slightly. Every effort is made to sell items not found in local shops. Among the articles for sale in the shop are hooked and braided rugs, knitted and crocheted bedspreads, patchwork quilts, placemats, aprons, smocks and pot holders, baby clothes and little girls' dresses, dolls, toys, knitted articles, pillows, birdhouses and feeders, pottery and cookbooks.
“New members are always welcome,” says President Jean Longfellow. “It takes many volunteers to keep the Exchange running.”
