Civil War re-enactors must be exhausted after commemorating Civil War battles and camps for the past four years but imagine what life was really like at the end of the Civil War. Special events coming ...

As a little girl, Carole Wooten chose her new clothes by carefully fingering the fabrics. She grew up in Parma sewing clothes for her dolls and later, for her children. Along the way, she developed an ...

LITCHFIELD - Using quilts as aids, handouts, and the main event, quilter, crafter and teacher Jo Hansling talked about the use of quilts during the Civil War. Addressing an audience of 35 at the ...

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 ...

CLINTON — Threads of history and heirlooms are being woven together this month for the annual quilt show at the C.H. Moore Homestead and DeWitt County Museum in Clinton, and a free presentation ...

Becky Wright couldn’t have known when she bought an old, mostly brown muslin quilt at an estate sale 34 years ago that it would become so much a part of her life — that it would, in fact, change her ...

You're 25 years old, married with two children, and own a nice house and business unique to your area. Then you get the call to duty, along with 75,000 other troops, to fight for the Union against the ...

The Civil War experience has been preserved over the past 150 years through a variety of media: books, newspaper accounts, films, drawings, paintings, diaries, artifacts and … quilts. The quilting ...

BLOOMINGTON — On their surface, quilts made in the early 19th century may seem like a series of simple patterns stitched across bright backgrounds. But for pre-Civil War slaves trekking hundreds of ...