In 1954, Doris Koenig was an enterprising 16-year-old who went to the estate sale at her great-grandmother’s Heidelberg Township farm. On that day, Koenig, now 63, had her eye on a quilt that was ...
Panels from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt (all images courtesy the National AIDS Memorial/NAMES Project) For the first time in its history, the International AIDS Conference went virtual. What ...
The Vermilion Historical Society has received a rare quilt with hand-stitched names of 600 people who lived in Vermilion and the surrounding townships, according to a news release. The quilt was made ...
Curiosity and persistence led a woman searching for family history to a treasure likely to elicit memories of World War II for many residents of the region. Bonnie Heenan of Gassville tracked down a ...
The old, faded quilt remained rolled up in a plastic bag for eight years after Pamela Peterman inherited it from her great-aunt Frances. As she unfurled it on her kitchen table in Rosemount one recent ...
For nearly 20 years, Sidney Brodie has sewn a new patch to the Durham Homicide and Victims of Violent Deaths Quilt each time a homicide occurs in the city. He began the quilt in 1998 with the name of ...