What started out as a sketch on a napkin one night at dinner has now been crafted to display Madison County’s Civil War history at the Pleasant View Home at Battlefield Park. About a year ago during a ...
GOLDEN • Scotti McCarthy encourages you to take a closer look. Look at this quilt, among the dozens on display here at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Look at the shapes and colors. Look at the ...
Quilts memorializing lynching victims in municipalities throughout Alachua County are now on display at the Matheson History ...
Black people have traditionally used quilts to tell their stories. Harriett Powers, for example, born into slavery in 1837, created the much-lauded “Bible Quilt” that hangs in the National Museum of ...
History is kept alive in many ways—through historical novels, ballads, folklore passed down through the generations. For one group of Arlington seniors, local history of the now closed Lee Center is ...
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Quilting history in West Virginia
GHENT, WV (WVNS) — Quilting has been part of life in West Virginia for generations, shaped by the mountains and the practical ...
The Framingham History Center is hosting a "Stitching Revolution" event on June 28-29, featuring quilting, lectures and 18th-century dance. Attendees can participate in community quilting and ...
Gee’s Bend is known as living history due to the region’s generations of Black female quilters. The quilts, initially created for comfort and warmth, have become a symbol of Black survival and civil ...
While most wives give their husbands shirts and shaving lotion, Teddy's wife Barbara recently gave him generations of family history stitched into a patchwork quilt. With roots reaching back more than ...
BENNINGTON, VT. — While U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan after 15 years, and the global reach of World War II's six years was unprecedented in scope, the American Civil War remains the nation's ...
The quilt is composed of groupings of three hexagons, with each grouping paying tribute to one of 30 figures from African-American history, she said. One hexagon bears the person’s name; another shows ...
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