Clarice Boswell remembers from her childhood an old and ragged quilt that hung from a fence at the family’s home in Lexington, Ky. “I didn’t know what it was at the time, but it was a chain quilt,” ...
Clarice Boswell’s “wedding ring” quilt, a replica of one from the Civil War era, is a vision of entwined circles in deep hues of crimson and blue on a creamy background. To some cultures the ringed ...
Juneteenth, which commemorates June 19, 1865 — the day the last enslaved people in Texas were freed — was observed this week. But the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park is continuing the ...
The Underground Railroad was a clandestine system for slaves in America to find passage to freedom. There were trails to follow and people who could provide them with food and safe haven until they ...
As he put together an exhibit of ceramic sculptures, quilts and paintings for Black History Month, art student Sean Beard of Cal State Northridge drew on his roots. “Mother Weep No More” at the campus ...
SHERMAN — Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, Kamala Harris and Martin Luther King Jr., are some of several dozen Black heroes studied by students at The Sherman School, as part of a month-long project ...
teaching assistant created a freedom quilt. "We started off with the Civil War in the 1860's and talked about the causes of the war," said teacher Heidi Baldus. "That lead us to the slavery unit and ...
The quilts hang from the third-floor railing in the state Capitol rotunda. Each is 3 feet wide by 16 feet long. There are 10 of them. One for each year that has passed. The quilts went up Friday. It ...
TUNKHANNOCK — The first Tunkhannock Quilt and Artisan Walk is set for Saturday, Oct. 3, with the Dietrich Theater as one destination. The Dietrich will display newly sewn Stack-n-Whack quilts as well ...
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