Pete and Evelyn Richards\u2019 children and grandchildren would like them to slow down, but for the Jeffersonville, Ga., couple, it\u2019s not spring unless they sell their wares at Summerville\u2019s Flowertown Festival.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur family thinks we should retire but we would miss it too much, so as long as the Lord lets us work, we\u2019ll continue,\u201d\u009d said Evelyn Richards.<\/p>\n
The couple, both in their 80s, is among more than 200 crafters who display their work each year at the Summerville Family YMCA\u2019s event. They make flowers and other tchotchkes from seashells found on the beaches of Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n
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