Did you know that Charlotte once had a “Daffodil Man”?
I didn’t, until I read about him in one of Elizabeth Lawrence’s articles for The Charlotte Observer.
His name was William “Badger” Pride.
A Bouquet of Flowers & 55 Years
In her article for the Charlotte Observer “Bouquet Picked from a Garden on a Bleak December Morning”, published December 18, 1966, Elizabeth Lawrence wrote, “On the fourth of December, after a night when the temperature dropped to 20, and on a day when it did not rise above 35, I went out to pick a bouquet for Mrs. Stuart Gaul who was in the hospital.”