The first year of the Flower Market, they raised $1,500. So the idea popped into my head, ‘Why not give people what they want?’ All people want plants and flowers….At lunch with about a dozen friends one day, I told them what I thought we should do, and they all agreed to help….” I didn’t think people really wanted our pies and cakes and for the amount of time and effort, we really weren’t making much money.

Michael’s Day Nursery and Hospital for Colored Babies. When she was asked what had given her the idea for the market, she said, “Bishop Coleman asked me to sell cakes and pies for the benefit of what was then called St. Michael’s Day Nursery, the first beneficiary of the first Flower Market in 1921. Dudley Clark, founder of the Wilmington Flower Market, made a recent visit to St. May 9, 1960, Journal-Every Evening Founder of Wilmington Flower Market visits first beneficiary McCormick, of Wilmington, pilot on a B-25, was captured after being shot down over Sardinia in May 1943…. He was co-pilot of a Flying Fortress based in England. Ennis, of Wilmington, was reported missing in June 1944.

He had written frequently to his parents, urging them never to give up hope if he were ever listed as missing…. Comegys, of Wilmington, was reported missing April 13, 1944. Allen, of Bethel, a bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress, was reported missing in July 1944 and as a prisoner in October 1944…. The crowning triumph came just five years, eight months and six days after Hitler invaded weak but proud Poland and struck the spark which set the world afire.Ī Big Three agreement put off the formal announcement of V-E Day until it can be proclaimed simultaneously by the major Allies – Britain, Russia and the United States….įour Delaware soldiers were liberated from German prison camps yesterday, according to reports received from Third Army Headquarters in Europe.

Roger bannister