Flower Show Exhibit Opens With ‘Edith Wilson’ and an Orchid Bearing Her Name
Plus, look ahead at first ladies-related events throughout this Women's History Month.
The “First Ladies and Their Orchids” exhibit at the Philadelphia Flower Show kicked off Saturday featuring Betsy Ely portraying former First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson and Farron Smith, founder of the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation.
The exhibit created by renown cattleya orchid grower Arthur Chadwick of Chadwick & Son Orchids of Virginia featured “Mrs. Wilson” on the show’s opening day adorned with a hybrid orchid bearing her name.
The romance between First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson and President Woodrow Wilson is one of history’s most enduring love stories, according to Smith. President Wilson was smitten with the widowed Edith Bolling Galt from the firs…
