Twentieth Century Club learns about wildflowers

The Twentieth Century Club’s speaker for their February meeting was Marcus Sandifer, with the Texas Highway Department in Atlanta. Mr. Sandifer gave a short history of “Wildflowers of Texas”. In 1980, Lady Bird Johnson began a program with the Highway Department challenging each district to compete for the prettiest highway in Texas. A monetary gift was given to the winning district. The East Texas District won a few times with their wildflower seeding of the district’s roadsides.

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