Wilson Daily Times, 21 March 1944.
Rocky Branch community named its home demonstration club for agent Jane Amos Boyd.
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- Irene Exum
- Elizabeth Hinnant
- Fletcher Pierce
Wilson Daily Times, 21 March 1944.
Rocky Branch community named its home demonstration club for agent Jane Amos Boyd.
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In the lead-up to my February 8 talk at Wilson County Public Library, every day I’ll feature a post related to Wilson County’s Rosenwald schools. (Or schools, like Mitchell, which were not Rosenwald-funded, but were contemporaries.)
Wilson Daily Times, 21 February 1944.
In the lead-up to my February 8 talk at Wilson County Public Library, every day I’ll feature a post related to Wilson County’s Rosenwald schools. Rocky Branch home demonstration club’s members lived in Rocky Branch school district.
Wilson Daily Times, 9 April 1943.
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In the lead-up to my February 8 talk at Wilson County Public Library, every day I’ll feature a post related to Wilson County’s Rosenwald schools. As seen here, the schools became the centers of rural communities. The Williamson Home Demonstration Club was comprised of women who lived in Williamson’s district. In this contribution to the Daily Times, the Club reported on members’ gardening, canning, and sewing work; their contribution to a fire fund for demonstration agent Jane Amos Boyd; a successful picnic with the clubs affiliated with Sims, New Vester, and Rocky Branch Schools; a baby shower; and the sick and shut-in.
Wilson Daily Times, 3 July 1945.
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Wilson Daily Times, 30 June 1941.
Picnics organized by Wilson County’s Black 4-H and Home Demonstration clubs were annual social highlights. In 1941, a hundred and fifty families traveled to Yelverton School at the far eastern edge of the county for fun and frolic in such contests as milk-sucking, cracker-eating, nail-driving, bag-racing, and horseshoe-pitching.
“Good cooking is probably a talent all these women can claim. They are members of the Rocky Branch [Home Demonstration] Club who attended a Canning Demonstration given by Miss Lane.” Wilson Daily Times, 2 July 1976.
This photograph probably dates from the late 1930s or early ’40s.