fruit orchards was varied with dances, picnics, and sports.

New York City Girl Scouts went to Ulster County to help >
farmers in harvest time. They picked 30,000 quarts of
currants in 10 days, harvested thousands of crates of onions,
carrots, tomatoes, beans, and fruits, and were valuable
helpers at weeding, hoeing, haying, and packing.

Arts, Crafts, Hobbies

Hobbies begun in youth
can become life-long inter-
ests. In Salt Lake City, Utah,
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home, each club has its own x

workshop or sewing center
with instructors for these
crafts as well as for music
and photography.

- A Washington, D. C., woman has turned her basement
into a workshop for a group of civilian defense messengers.
Here the boys can do clay modeling, record foreign broad-
casts, collect coins and stamps, build model planes, carve
woodwork, and print war posters.

The Racine, Wisconsin, Art Association offers groups of
all ages a community program which includes painting,
sculpturing, photography, gardening, interior decorating
and sketching. The Museum of Fine Arts serves as head-
quarters.

There are handcraft classes for various age groups at the
Highland Park, Illinois, community center.

In Detroit, Michigan, the YWCA has classes in clay model-
ing, leather, metal and woodwork. :

In Seattle, Washington, night programs include crafts,
music, photography, and dramatics.

  

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