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| A quilt barn in Harrison County, Ohio |
Norma
Huss, The Grandma Moses of Mystery, has written one ghost mystery (to please
her grandchildren, of course) and two mysteries placed on Chesapeake Bay. Her
non-fiction is her father’s true adventure. Learn more about Norma and her
books at her website and blog.
Quilts
and Barns
How do quilts, a handmade
bedcover, and barns, a large building for cows, go together? Answer—when a barn
sports a quilted decoration.
It’s a natural for the place
where I live, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania—the home of Amish quilts, dairy
farms, fields of hay and corn. But we are sort of a Johnny-come-lately. Quilt
trails are found in 48 states and Canada. A local quilting farm woman saw her
first barn quilt in Ohio which inspired the one profiled in our local
newspaper.
Some 7,000 wooden or Mylar quilts
were created by groups such as the Grange (a farming organization I belonged to
as a teenage farm girl.) They can be found following quilt trails, and they
aren’t all on barns.
Here is the article from
our local newspaper. And, of course, something so popular has its own Facebook page here.
I had never before heard of
quilts on barns, or quilt trails. In the summer, we have corn mazes, tours of
dairy farms, and the Hershey candy factory. Do you have similar activities
where you live? I’d love to hear about them.
A
Knucklehead in 1920s Alaska
Nineteen-year-old Bill Collins
travels to Alaska in the 1920s to work and save for college. He finds
adventure, misadventure, and not much money. He faces hardships, finds friends,
and has experiences that change a boy into a man.
During three summers and one
winter, Bill survives hunger, earthquake, stomping caribou, and icicle frost.
He learns about stopes, sluice boxes, and powder smoke. He finds friends, one willing
to face a bear for him, and enemies eager to knife him or smash him with a
twenty-pound sledge. He has one lucky day and more than a few really bad days.
This is the story of one
hot-headed young man determined to earn his own way, but in his own words, a
true knucklehead.
The e-book is free for five days,
starting today. Yesterday’s News, a bonus short mystery is included.
Lovely quilt!
ReplyDeleteI was amazed at the variety they show on the quilt website. Lots of lovely ones.
ReplyDeleteThank you Lois/Anastasia for asking me to visit.
I love this idea! My friend grew up near Hershey and said she could smell chocolate in the air.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information. What a fun adventure I had looking at all the wonderful quilts. >)
ReplyDeleteVicki, you definitely can smell the chocolate in Hershey. (But not, unfortunately, from my home. I have to make do with a bag of Hershey kisses.)
ReplyDeleteBeaj, I love the variety of quilts too (both barn and fabric).