February 5 – 7, 2005
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Primary topics of this QHL Digest:
- Underground Railroad Quilt Code Debate Concludes — The month’s recurring myth discussion wraps up with source critiques and a bibliography recommendation on African American quiltmaking. (see the article on Underground Railroad quilts)
- Gee’s Bend Quilts on PBS — Members react to a PBS special on the Gee’s Bend quilters and share a related regional screening.
- Quilt Show Recap With Photos — Photos from the Capitol Region Quilt Study Group’s recent meeting spark identification of a WWI Red Cross fundraising quilt.
- Broderie Perse and Chintz Appliqué Book Recommendations — Members recommend reference books on Broderie Perse and chintz appliqué quilts. (see the article on early American quilts)
- AQS Paducah Show Planning — A member looks for a spare room share for the upcoming AQS Paducah show.
From: “Candace Perry”
All we can do is draw on the material evidence, Lori…and also, there’s safety in numbers. If one story survived with this precious information, why didn’t ten stories survive…or 100… Folklore is like folk art, IMO; it’s the stories of a community. One tale does not folklore make — once again, just my opinion. Now I’m worried, also; I write all of these labels for exhibits but you’re correct, how do I know this, I wasn’t there. Somehow historians and researchers have to draw on the evidence to piece together a glimspe of what might have been. One of my very favorite quotes is “the past is a foreign country,” which is terribly true. It has a language and customs we must learn to understand it, and thereby, somehow interpret it for this and future generations. Candace Perry where it is not snowing in Pennsburg PA, and am now concerned it’s snowing in MD (LOATHING the snow!!!)
From: Jackie Joy <joysbees@>
Oh, goodness gracious me!
Jackie in Reno
Lori Hudlow <lahudlow@> wrote: Just a thought. How do we know that just once a quilt chain was made to help a slave make their way to freedom? Then just a most stories go they get embellished along the way and now we have this wonderful folklore story to be shared. Whether it is a true account who’s to say….none of us where there.
Snowing in Keedysville, MD Lori
Hi, Has anyone started on this great endeavor in NJ? I have the directions which Don kindly sent me, but I’m not really a quilter, but more of a crazy quilter. I know I can make the blocks (well, I haven’t tried, but I think I can), but need more guidance in assembling the entire quilt. Anyone know if this project has started in NJ? I’m in NW Jersey but can travel some when the weather gets better. TIA. I know four families locally that have lost their sons so there is work to be done. I’d also like to make one for a Coast Guardsman who was also lost in Iraq to an explosion. There’s not much you can say to the families, but I think the quilt itself speaks volumes. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Carol Grace
From: Lori Hudlow <lahudlow@>
As to my last comment….I really could care less about the story. I love quilt history and whether is a piece of it it sure makes for interesting conversation. I have been into collecting antiques for over 20 years and just as soon as someone says never or that couldn’t be something comes up to change their opinion. Just like I have been told by many historians that ladies during the civil war period always parted their hair in the middle……I have seen pictures of side parts and lets be real if you didn’t look good with your hair parted in the middle would you? Well, that was a little off the subject sorry.
Still snowing in Keedysville, MD Lori
From: jeanlester <jeanlester@>
I seem to have missed out on getting a room, this year, in Paducah. If there is anyone with an extra, would you consider me as a recipient?
Jean
From: Joan Kiplinger <jkip@>
Those historians can’t be very scholarly. One only has to read publications published during CW to see the various hair styles. And it was antebellum ladies who were more prone to middle parts than in the 1860s. One sees only the fashion plates and makes determinations that is how everyone lived or looked. Yes, history is a living subject but I agree with Candace’s observations about folklore or folkmyth and understand their origins.
From: Loretta Woodard
For those who remember the Summer 2003 Blanket Statements article, THE QUEEN’S QUILT, the book is now available online through the ‘Iolani Palace shop for $7.95 at http://www.iolanipalace.org/shop/books.html. It’s just the right size and price for gift-giving. <G> No personal gain accruing.
I trust it will be ok to suggest that If other museum gift shops would be interested in stocking the book, please contact Darryl Chung, Iolani Palace gift shop manager (see http://www.iolanipalace.org/contact/index.html). I know the Palace is interested in getting the book out there but it’s not being carried by the regular trade book vendors at this point.
Mahalo. —– Laurie Woodard Hawaiian Quilt Research Project 558 Palawiki St. Kailua, HI 96734
From: Gail Ingram <gingram@>
Reading my earlier posting (African-American influences), I note a couple of places in which a critical word was omitted that makes a difference in meaning.
First:
>A quiet questioning and tacit dismissal of these possibilities or the real >merit of quilts such as those in the old Gee’s Bend collection occurs today >among Anglo-European-American quilters. I cannot count the number of times >I’ve heard the remark, “Well, anyone could produce quilts like that. But if >WE produced them, everybody would laugh at us, dismiss us.”
The word “many” should qualify “Anglo-European-American quilters.”
Actually, I personally—please note the qualifier there!—think a lot of the discussion is divided between those who are swept up in a wave of political correctness and see buttons on the Emperor’s new coat that might not be there and those who have a hard time seeing the Emperor at all. It seems to me (Note “seems” and “me”) the subject of African-American quilts has been politicized more than is healthy for discovery and affords a subject that can help us understand many other quilt traditions within our nation’s general tradition.
Second:
> These were not the quilts Alice Walker’s Mama would >refuse to yield to her superficial daughter, a girl alienated from her past >and trying to establish a false heritage.
I relied on everyone’s having read “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. The “Mama” referred to above is a character in the story, not Walker’s own mother.
Gail
From: “Newbie Richardson”
About 20 years ago, I did a set of vestments for my church ( High Episcopal). It was the “All Seasons” set, which means that these are the vestments and altar hangings used on non feast days, the green set. The altar hanging was of a gorgeous silk and cotton brocade with lots of floral motifs in urns. It gets hot up “on stage” at the altar, so I was asked to try and design vestments that would “breath”. I did them out of cotton moire with the motifs from the brocade cut out and appliqued on the front and back of the chasuble . That is the tabard style garment worn by the officiating priest over the cassock.( It looked swell, if I do say so myself) I treated the cut edges with Fray Chek , allowed it to dry and button hole stitched with embroidery floss – 2 strands. I had checked all my needlework encyclopaedia and, in the 19th century, seamstresses used gum arabic to seal buttonholes before stitching – so that is why I used the Fray Chek. After at least one dry cleaning a year for the past 20, the chasuble is still in great shape with no fraying. As I did make a mistake on the set (which was easily corrected) born out of my ignorance as to use. (I hinged the burse on the wrong side). I decided that I needed to learn more about vestments, so I joined the altar guild. When the new members were querried as to why we joined, I answered: “post graduate training”. I doubt that Father Malm had ever heard that response before! Many of the chintz used for the Broderie Perse in the early 19th c. were VERY tightly woven, so that they did not fray like we are used to seeing today. I also suspect that many of them were treated with gum arabic, just like the button holes. 18th c dresses made of silk taffetas ( lutesong) were frequently trimmed with ruffles and ruching with “pinked” edges. This was achieved by a tool (which may have been heated in some cases) that cut the edges in a scallopped pattern. The silk was so tightly woven that those edges still have not frayed in over 250 years. Newbie Richardson
From: Midnitelaptop@
have to go watch the pbs special on the gees bend quilters and quilts… can’t wait …i saw those quilts and they are wonderous.. jeanL
From: Dana Balsamo
Hi Jean, It was a very nice special, I saw it tonight, too. I wish I could be so freeing in my quilts. I saw them with a group of ladies from my guild when they were at the Whitney Museum. My best, Dana
From: “Mary Voss”
For those of you in the West Michigan area the program “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend” will be presented this Sunday, February 6 at 3 p.m. on the local PBS station WGVU.
From: “Barbara Vlack”
First of all, thank you, Newbie for your explanation about your ecclesiastical work. It came at a PERFECT time for me, as I am working on a purple scapular for my best girlfriend, who also was my former pastor. It’s purple, for Lent, and she wants lots of fancy do’s in it to change the focus from Lent being a downer (mourning and repentance) to being an uplift (renewal). I’ve got less than a week to finish this up.
And thank you, Laurie, for the URL for the Iolani Palace information. I found the site to offer great shopping!
I attended the Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute last week and found it to be totally inspiring. It was an exhibit that focuses on the history of native Americans in the Midwest to southeast. I mean “In the beginning” kind of history. There were some stone artifacts in the exhibit that were dated hundreds of years B.C. (I was surprised they did not use the more “politically correct” “B.C.E.”, but I digress). I had never thought of native Americans in B.C. terms.
What most impressed me were many of the pottery pieces that had decorations that look so very much like our current machine quilting designs! And many of the images looked like they had an Egyptian influence, though I doubt that could happen directly. What is the anthropological term for two cultures developing similar designs though they are geographically distantly removed from each other and therefore had no contact with each other? “Simultaneous something-or-other” I’m struggling to remember the term.
The exhibit is now closed, but there is a wonderful catalog that contains the history of archeological digs of Indian mounds that uncovered the many artifacts. Each piece is beautifully photographed and explained. I bought the book for design inspirations, because I know I’ll use them! You can see some of what the exhibit was about at http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/herohawk/overview.html The museum bookstore has the catalog book, “Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand.”
Barb Vlack cptvdeo@
From: Beth Donaldson
Kathy, Here is a book title to include in your bibliography: African American Quiltmaking in Michigan, edited by Marsha L. MacDowell, Michigan State University Press in collaboration with the Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, Michigan, 1997.
>I am attempting to assemble a bibliography on resourses relating >African-American influences especially as they relate to quilting. I >would appreciate suggestions from all of you for additions to such a >list. Titles of books and articles that you know of or would like to see >would be most welcome. > >I can’t wait to see what you all suggest! > >Kathy Moore >Lincoln, NE
From: “Newbie Richardson”
That wonderful wool quilt that sold for such a large sum crossed the line from “quilt” to “folk art” – with the added feature of solid American provenance. Thus it had a whole new market – the same market as those wonderful 18th and early 19th century school girl embroideries and samplers with solid American provenance. The market that purchases these, besides wealthy collectors of the decorative arts, are investors who are looking to diversify out of the stock market but do not trust the art market. They do trust and understand Americana, such as presidential memorabilia or icons of pop culture. Thus the high price paid. One can argue that this is a good thing in that, by default, it elevates the value of all textiles, and that when someone pays that much for an object – whether for themselves or on behalf of an institution – then the object will be well cared for. In this case, the object is very graphic with wonderful visual appeal. If there was a corporate benefactor involved, or an MBA turned museum director then that would have influenced the decision to purchase the object. There has been a sea change in museum management in the last 5 years. The older “gentleman scholar” who by charm and erudition, could pursuade the wealthy old lady to underwrite a museum acqisition, has been replaced by MBA’s whose buddies are the CFO’s of companies. They want to be associated with objects that have visual appeal, & PR potential. This has impacted the acquisiton – and value – of historically important but not “sexy” acquisitions. It is the times we live in. Newbie Richardson
From: Ark Quilts
Hello! I am searching for a particular piece of literature about a woman walking in a garden — she is thinking about the civil war, the roses in the garden, the pattern of leaves shadowed on the fabric of her gown, the stones on the garden path………….etc. I cannot remember if it is a poem or a selection from prose. It was popular in the 1970’s in college classes…any guesses out there as to what this is? I only vaguely remember the details of the selection used in forensic speaking competitions, but would like to locate it and read it again. Don’t know if the author is a woman or man or if they were a mid-eighteenth century person or lived & wrote after the war. The selection reflects on death, war, love, being left behind, etc. It really bugs me that I cannot remember the title. I have checked under “pattern of roses” “garden” and everything else I can think of. Thanks-Connie Ark
From: “Karen Evans”
I believe you’re thinking of “Patterns” by Amy Lowell.
From: Ark Quilts
Karen–I think you are correct. I located a copy & will read it carefully. Thanks-Connie
Karen Evans <charter.net> wrote:I believe you’re thinking of “Patterns” by Amy Lowell.
Karen Evans
From: “Karen Erlandson” <quilter@>
Does anyone know of a book about “Broderie Perse” or chintz appliqué quilts?
Karen in Texas
From: Barbara Burnham
There are many. Here are my favorites: For history, lots of great color pictures, samples from museums, etc.: “Chintz Quilts: Unfading Glory” by Lacy Folmar Bullard and Betty Jo Shiell, 1983 For how-to, design, methods, quilting, trapunto, etc.: “Broderie Perse, The Elegant Quilt” by Barbara W. Barber, 1997 Barbara Burnham Ellicott City, MD
Karen Erlandson <quiltercooke.net> wrote: Does anyone know of a book about “Broderie Perse” or chintz appliqué quilts?
Karen in Texas
From: “Doug and Sarah Hough”
I have a book “Chintz Quilts: Unfading Glory” by Lacy Folmar Bullard and Betty Jo Shiell, Serendipity Publishers, Tallahassee, c1983
Sarah in Panama City, Fl where it is sunny and in the 60s today!
From: “Karen Musgrave”
I am writing to help the Troy Museum and Historic Village. Their question came to me via The Alliance for American Quilts (www.centerforthequilt.org). They are looking for a traveling quilt exhibition for children. If you know of any or could share with me information on children’s programs and quilting, I would be most appreciative.
Thanks for your help, Karen Musgrave
From: Kris Driessen
The Capitol Region Quilt Study Group of Albany NY will hold its bi-monthly meeting at the Guilderland Public Library tomorrow from 10:00AM to 3:00PM. The theme is red or heart quilts. All are invited to attend with or without quilts to examine and share. The Guilderland Public Library is located at 2228 Western Avenue Guilderland, NY 12084 (518) 456-2400
I will be bringing the quilt y’all so generously made for me. I think that qualifies as a heart quilt:-))
Kris
From: Barb Garrett <bgarrett421@>
Good Evening All –
This auction was listed in one of the “free newspapers” in my area, and I just went to the website — 20 pages of pictures of textiles to view — many many quilts. The auction looks like it would be great to attend — just as a spectator or as a bidder. Hope you enjoy the picture show. Click on “click here for full preview” to begin the viewing.
Copake Auction Inc
Barb in southeastern PA
From: Dana Balsamo
I was able to get my husband to make a weekend out of it. We are taking the girls to the Berkshires (about 30 min from Copake)…I get to go to the auction on Saturday and have Sunday and Monday with the family in the mountains.
Anyone else planning on going. These guys put on a great textile auction every February and are truly the nicest people to deal with.
My best, Dana
From: Joan Kiplinger
This rather straddles staying on topic but I know many of you are scholars or interested in black history month and related. Perhaps some of you saw this AP story or heard it on the news; for those who didn’t, I thought this became an interesting development which was long overdue. I can remember many blacks I worked with stating the same views back in the 1970s, more so when affirmative action was mandatory.
The very end of this file: http://www.quiltersmuse.com/quilt_historians_united_presents.htm will provide information and a link to a transcript of a television interview with authors of a recent book: /Black Portsmouth/.
Unless my memory is failing me completely, I do think that I remember one of the authors as saying that she started writing the book in 1999. Of course, that is the same year that HIPV was published.
There is a mention of quilts in the online transcript, if you are patient and read down far enough. This seems to be a re-broadcast of an earlier show in 2002, yet amazon.com states that the book was pubished in 2004, so I’m not sure about that discrepancy.
Pat C.
From: “jhorsey”
Hi- Is anyone aware of a computer software which catalogues the old “Nancy Page” newpaper patterns, and can be used as a basis for patterns for new projects? I have seen some photocopies of some of the pattern sets on ebay, but I would prefer comprehensive source, if there is such a thing. Thanks very much. I really enjoyed the link to the Copake auctions, and several of the other links especially in the last few weeks when the weather has been so gloomy. Learning from the list is a good antidote to cabin fever! Jo, in Newnan —-
From: ARabara15@
I attended last year as well as Sue Reich. There is a LOT more this year than last year. A great selection of not only quilts but many many more textiles. I find many of the prices and estimates reasonable.I will be attending this year as well. Hope to see some of you.
Donald Brokate Trenton NJ
From: Kris Driessen
The pictures are up, but I don’t have the minutes yet. Remember, they are thumbnails, click on them to see them close up.
I would be interested in everyones opinion of the quilt in the upper right hand corner – and the one I am stading in front of:-))
The URL is http://www.quiltstudy.com . Click on CRQSG (Capital Region Quilt Study Group)
Kris
From: Xenia Cord
Kris, the red and white quilt with the crosses was a fundraising effort for the American Red Cross during WW I. In the December 1917 issue of Modern Priscilla, the project was described in detail, down to how to solicit important people and where to feature their names, and what sorts of support could be donated by raising specific amounts of money. The campaign was pitched at individuals and small groups, giving everyone a chance to support the war effort.
And would you contact me privately about another quilt matter?
Thanks!
Xenia
From: “Karen Evans”
Do you mean the Baltimore-style applique one with all the pseudo-Victorian panels? It looks more like a nostalgia piece, quite recent….
Hi ….. Please answer this on line, as I am also interested : 0 ) thanks! Judy
From: Midnitelaptop@
is the quilt you’re standing in front of….the chimney sweep quilt we all contributed blocks to…
there you go two sentences ending in a preposition….my 5th grade teacher would be sooooo proud…LOL
jeanL
From: Barb Garrett
I’m so excited — while searching to see if there will be any tv for me to watch tonight while my DH watches football — I found that the Gee’s Bend show will be on at 7 pm — yay!!!!!
For Philadelphia/Wilmington, DE, area members — Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend will be on PBS channel 12 at 7 pm Sunday night, Feb 6 — according to my tv guide.
Barb in southeastern PA where Fly Eagles Fly mania has taken over
From: “Teddy Pruett” <aprayzer@>
This is a brazen thing to say, but those of you who know me well can just consider the brazen source. But, every time I see the initials HIPV, my mind instantly jumps to a similar set of initials that represent yet another disease that spreaads rapidly and wont go away. Teddy Pruett
From: Joan Kiplinger <jkip@>
Oh Teddy, there is a saying that great minds run in the same gutter. 😀 When I first saw the acronynm I couldn’t figure why THAT subject would be a topic for this list; I was relatively new to list at the time. It must have been several weeks or so before I caught on, at first thinking that the disease was in action much earlier than thought if the slaves had it, and the finally came the dawn when someone gave full name of book.Talk about feeling 1″ tall. :-[
From: Patricia L Cummings
Teddy Pruett wrote:
> This is a brazen thing to say, but those of you who know me well can > just consider the brazen source. But, every time I see the initials > HIPV, my mind instantly jumps to a similar set of initials that > represent yet another disease that spreads rapidly and won’t go away. > Teddy Pruett
* * * * * * **
> Teddy,
> I love you, you “brazen” thing.
Pat C. 🙂
Per the discussion about quilts and museums…
First of all, I wanted to let everyone know that the Great Lakes Quilt Center/Michigan State University Museum continues to build its holdings of quilts and quilt-related ephemera with the guidance of a collection development policy. The Museum also seeks innovative ways to make those collections available for research, exhibition, and education through exhibitions (including virtual ones), publications, festival programs, special events, and major efforts like The Quilt Index (where a sample of our collections can be searched) and Boxes Under the Bed (where you can see samples of the ephemera collections).
For more information, about the collections, go to: http://museum.msu.edu/glqc/collections.html
For learn about The Quilt Index, go to: http://www.quiltindex.org
To learn more about Boxes, go to: http://www.centerforthequilt.org/boxes/boxes.html
To view the MSUM quilt collection development policy, go to: http://museum.msu.edu/glqc/collections_developuse.html
For more information about the Great Lakes Quilt Center, go to http://museum.msu.edu/glqc/index.html
Secondly, I want to emphatically support Judy’s suggestion of considering donating funds along with a quilt. When a museum acquires a quilt, it is just the beginning of the museum’s long-term commitment to provide care for the quilt and, for many institutions, a commitment to make it accessible (through web-based avenues, exhibitions, on-site study, etc). All this costs and, as museum standards for care and accessibility rise, so do the expenses involved in meeting those standards. Thus a donated item — while a gift in and of itself — also becomes a financial responsibility and is one of the reasons that museums carefully deliberate on each possible acquisition. While we in museums realize that not everyone who donates an item or a collection has the capacity to also donate funds, we certainly appreciate those who can and do.
Marsha MacDowell, Ph.D. Curator and Professor Great Lakes Quilt Center Michigan State University Museum
I went to the Bethel, CT public library today for the presentation of Freedom Quilts by a Civil War Enactor. She was in costume and began her lecture speaking about her outfit, behind her was a quilt with patterns from HIPV and the story of Ozella Williams. She did state that the book was based on recollections of Ozella who is now deceased and that it is legend but she added to every legend is a kernel of truth. She also stated up front that quilts were not hung out on the fence posts to lead the way. Using the poem associated with the quilt blocks, she told the story of the UGRR. The audience of 3/4 quilters was charmed as you might expect. And then the questions came! Mine was the second question. I started out with a compliment on her Civil War and Underground research and then I asked her if she also researched the quilt patterns or if she studied quilt history. She stated that she had not researched the patterns at all and she was not a quiltmaker or a quilt historian. She had based her entire tale on what was written in HIPV and never validated it. I asked her how she could justify presenting a story using patterns that were mostly (about 2/3rds) never used in quilts until after the Civil war ended and some from the twentieth century when talking about a time period from 1830-1860 (her dates for the Underground). With that question, there was a collective hiss from the audience directed at me. She continued that even though these patterns might post date the UGRR, their use to demonstrate the unspoken strengths of character of the slaves was the message she was there to impart. Also, she and her husband have discovered designs similar to these in eighteenth century African textiles. I pointed out to her that some of the designs are timeless and can also be found mosaic floors across Europe and in Asia. Never the less, she strongly feels that African slaves brought these designs with them and may have been the first to incorporate them into their private quiltmaking, pre-Civil War to be seen by their families and other slaves. I ask her to tell me historically, where even one of these quilts might be found to validate this. Her husband agreed that there has never been a quilt found. When I suggested that this is a wonderful story that is not based on fact but fiction; she thought that the connection with quilts was not its purpose. The story was told in this way to enlightened people about the strength of the Negro spirit. She dismissed me then with “This is not the time or place to debate this.” I presented her with copies of all of the web offerings from our list and that of Giles Wright. She told me that she presents extensively in the South and there is not an event that passes without someone from the African community speaking to her about their memories of similar stories involving quilts. So, she feels totally justified in continuing her performance. Her husband told me that “This week, quilt historians are planning to debunk the Myth.” (Quilt historians out there, is it any of you?) Was it worth it? There were at least four people who asked me for the web sites to enlighten them further. If only one person asked, then I think it was worth it. Also, this story, if presented well is so powerful and appealing that people do not want to hear that it might be fiction. They do not care that they are being lead astray. That’s where we stand in Connecticut. sue reich ——_
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:24:54 -0500 | From: “Karen Evans”
*wince* Sorry to hear you were hissed. At least people came up to you afterwards and asked for more information.
Karen Evans
Oh, Sue, what a brave girl you are! The hiss would have done me in.
“With that question, there was a collective hiss from the audience directed at me.”
Christine Thresh http://www.winnowing.com
From: “sue reich” <suereich@>
One question I didn’t ask but needs to be addressed; are royalties being paid for all of these presentations. The right to present this information should be requested first by the presenters. And royalties should be charged. I doubt that Dr. Tobin or Ozella William’s family are receiving their fair share. sue reich ——_NextPart_000_000C_01C50C7A.4D8B5ED0–
Dear Sue Reich:
Thanks so much for sharing the story of your encounter of the worst kind. You, my dear, are the one who had the most courage, in this instance. Anyone can stand up in front of an audience, spinning a wild tale for entertainment’s sake and (money?), but it takes a certain amount of conviction to stand up for what you know to be true. If many of us could have been there, we would have stood tall with you.
Hopeless? Hardly. It may seem like you are one voice crying in the wilderness but you are not. While it may seem that the American public would all like to be sold this story, woven out of whole cloth and imagination, not everyone wants to accept it as THE Gospel truth, and have not done so. What is the old saying, “You can fool some of the people, some of the time….”?.
What strikes me most are some of her statements. How does telling an unsubstantiated tale about the history of a people, make members of that group feel better? I just don’t get it, and I probably never will.
Congratulations! Nice to know that I am not the only one who disputes the code. Then again, I already knew that there’s a bunch of us!
Patricia L. Cummings, one Yankee who prefers fact to fiction www.quiltersmuse.com
> is the quilt you’re standing in front of….the chimney sweep quilt we all > contributed blocks to… > > there you go two sentences ending in a preposition….my 5th grade teacher > would be sooooo proud…LOL > > jeanL > > Jean,
One of my favorite preposition stories comes from a feisty colleague who was reprimanded in a message sent through hapless child. The mother was a friend of mine but among the most “knowing” and “certain” individuals I’ve known. She had proofed a paper her son had written and on which the teacher had not marked a sentence that ended with a preposition.
The boy reported, “My mother says a sentence cannot end with a proposition.”
My colleague snapped, “Tell your mother she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.”
Gail
From: Gail Ingram
I once received an email from a woman who has done much to establish the study of quilts as a respectable field of scholarship and source of knowledge.
She said merely, “Oh gawd!”
My mother, born in 1908 into a family of highly intelligent and accomplished women, carefully enunciated each syllable when she praised some brave and daring action of a woman.
“I glory in her spunk!” she would say enthusiastically.
Sue, I pass along these pithy remarks to you on the occasion of your having stood and spoken truth to a hostile audience:
“Oh gawd! I glory in your spunk!”
Gail
From: “Donna Skvarla” <bearspaw@>
Hi All,
I enjoy reading everyone’s comments and now I have a question! Do any of you have a citation for an article that appeared in Life magazine sometime in the 30s that was about the Kansas quilters, Rose Kretsinger, Charlotte Whitehill, etc.? If anyone knows the date of this particular issue of Life, could you let me know what it is? Thanks so much!
Donna Skvarla
