... she collects the lucky clovers to hand out to police officers and firefighters for their acts of bravery... Ford has been collecting clovers since she was a girl in Germany...
You can read more about her in this feature from the Daily News from 2008.
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She is really a lovely person.
Amazing. 30+ year in the EV and I never knew about or saw her. What a lovely person, I will definitely be on the lookout now!
She began giving them to cops and firemen after her friend Firefighter John Heffernan died on 9/11. Johnny's band The Bullys still play his songs and will be at The Local 269 on Houston this Saturday.
nice to hear about someone who has a heart and carrys on like a True LES icon Better to hear about this then LES JEWELS and company
What a cool woman and a great story. Thanks for posting this.
I love this story! Really love hearing about people like this, how beautiful
Neat. I randomly ran into her at the Astor Place Starbucks in 2007 and she gave me a couple of four-leaf clovers, which I still have!
Cool, I never knew of this.
That's great. I never knew of this woman. I have long collected four-leaf clovers in Tompkins Square Park, which is an excellent spot for that. I used to enter four-leaf clover finding contests in Cape Cod when I was young. I remember placing 2nd after a guy from Montreal. The best one I've found in Tompkins Square Park is a six leaf clover, which I think I still have somewhere, pressed.
Renee said,
I met this lovely lady by chance while working on a film in the EV. Hildegard chatted about how she noticed more of the clovers since 9/11, she's found thousands of them. They're beautifully pressed and dated and couldn't bring anything but good luck. Really gorgeous gesture on her part, handing them out in honour of city firefighters..
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