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Show Antique Quilt Show sparks interest HEIRLOOMS. Two of the visitors to the antique quilt show examine the handiwork on a quilt dating over 75 years old. "Sitting in front of an open fire, with fingers that never seem to tire, Mother and sisters, when day is done. Making a quilt of rose and green, they were calico pieces with a satin sheen. How could they know that a century would pass and the quilt would pass from lass to lass? Threads are broken and edges frayed, but this beautiful heirloom is not for sale or trade." This poem, written for the Antique Quilt and Coverlet Show held last Thursday in - Cedar City by Pearl Hunt Rogers, typifies the spirit which surrounded the event. The quilt and coverlet show was sponsored by USU Extension, in cooperation with the Festival of the American West, held annually an-nually in Logan. Eight of the quilts displayed at the Family Living Center, SUSC were named to go to the Logan pageant. Others were only on display, requested by their owners to go no further competition. j All had histories and genealogy-sparking stories to tell. PRICELESS. Many of the quilts shown could not be priced,, as the materials and love gone into the quilts and coverlets are too dear to price. One quilt, not a winner, however, was actually made from hundreds of ribbons collected and won from stock shows across the western states. Another, a coverlet displayed by Adelaide S. Naegle, Touquerville, was dyed .with native roots and dandelions. All the work on the heirloom, of course, was done by hand-the original owner, Ann Salvage, being a member of the Willie Handcart Company. The coverlet dates over 100 years. A second winner, displayed by Alice Alexander, was made before the Civil War by the Phillips family in southern Illinois. Mrs. Alexander said she eceived the quilt as a gift from her husband's mother, Mrs. Mogonne Phillips. Pre-Civil War, and it still had intricate detail which awed many of the women present at the showing. Harriet Sorenson, from Orderville, displayed a quilt, still in almost perfect condition, con-dition, made with hundreds of different pieces in an overlapping pattern. It was originally made by Harriet Miller Woodbury, a dressmaker from Salt Lake City who later moved to St. George to join the settlement there. Nancy Seahorn Chaney, a Cherokee great grandmother grand-mother of Edna Gubler, LaVerkin, made the fourth winning quilt in about the mid-1800's, Mrs. Gubler said. Again, the pain and effort put into the priceless hand-me-down were very evident. A beautiful silk striped .coverlet, another winner displayed by Evelyn Fonz, St. George, belonged to Mary Green of Troy, Chicago. Mrs. Green's husband was a doctor in the Civil War, for the Union. The quilt was made in the 1890's. Criteria for all winners was that they be over 75 years old. Another winner was displayed by Ruth Orton Guyman, Parowan, who's quilt was made for Mrs. Thomas Durman, for her wedding. If she were alive today, Mrs. Guyman said, Mrs. Durman would be 102, dating the quilt to about 1885. Another winner was displayed by Sharon Lowe Aim, Milford, who stated the quilt was made by one of the wives of a polygomaous predecessor. Pearl Rogers also exhibited a winner, made from peices obtained at the "Old Santa Clara Store." Dates of the Festival of the American West are July 29 through August 6. |