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The Flint Sisters: Making Do

Arlouene, Gladys, and Lunamae Flint were born in the mid-1920s to Roy and Daisy Berry Flint and raised in Pike, New York. They grew up on the family dairy farm that their father had inherited in rural Wyoming County, where they also helped their mother tend to more than a thousand chickens. Their way of life-where nearly all one's food, clothing, furniture, household decorations, entertainment, and other needs were supplied by materials at hand and by one's own skill-for most of us exists only in memory. For the Flint sisters, "making do" with what they had was not just a necessity, but also a springboard to the creativity, imagination, and beauty found in their heritage and home-based ...

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