Woodleaf Home Demonstration Club and HD Agent Adna Edwards, 1920s

Adna Edwards, Rowan County’s first full-time home demonstration agent, teaches the Woodleaf Home Demonstration Club how to use a steam pressure canner. Maggie Julian Canup began home demonstration work in 1912 on a part-time basis for $1 a year. The first adult program began in 1920, and Miss Edwards became the first full-time agent in 1921. Only four member of the audience have been identified. They are, fourth from the left in the front row, Daisy “Des” Fraley; first on the second row, Bertha Watson Wetmore; and third on the second row, Charlotte Fraley Bailey, holding her son, Jack. This photo was published May 6, 1989, in the Salisbury Post.