I never had any day that seemed so short. Soon after we had got dressed and it was time to leave. 'In the afternoon we went in bathing and Margaret almost drowned. The piece, titled 'An Exciting Start,' was his account of a day in Tolchester with his family: Marion Herman, resident of the Edward Apartments on Brookfield and Whitlock streets, who won fifth prize at age 9 in a 1911 essay contest published in The Sun. It was a treat mothers would give children to ward off queasiness. Eff said that old-timers have told her about eating lemon sticks on the steamboats that ran from Baltimore to Tolchester on the Eastern Shore. The 1948 event featured 'a huge plaster of Paris model of the traditional lemon-with-a-peppermint stick,' The Sun wrote.Įff is among those who believe that lemon sticks were around before the first FlowerMart, in Baltimore and elsewhere. 'For only at this time do peppermint sticks and lemons appear in the hands of club women,' The Sun reported.įrom there, there was no stopping it. But by 1940, the lemon sticks were for everyone. 'Proud fathers … expressed the desire to taste one along with their little daughters and sons, but overcame the temptation for sake of propriety,' The Sun reported. In 1934, the lemon sticks were still for kids. The earliest mention of the lemon stick at the FlowerMart in The Baltimore Sun appears to be this, in the 11th paragraph of a May 4, 1924, aricle titled 'Flower Mart Will Have Parisian Cafe, Gardens and Country Stall.' After news about the American citizenship booth, the article notes, 'Girls in sprightly costumes will thread the crowd selling boutonnieres, lemon sticks and caramels.'

'They'd do the walk around FlowerMart, and take a box of lemon-peppermint back to the office.' 'All the corporate boys would take a crab cake and peppermint stick,' she said. The lemon stick forms part of the FlowerMart she remembers from the 1960s. Vernon Ltd., the nonprofit organization that took over control of the festival. Purcell was twice the FlowerMart chairwoman for the Civic League and is now the president of FlowerMart at Mt. They thought it would make a great food icon at FlowerMart. 'It came from France,' said Carol Purcell.

Lemon peppermint sticks