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1000 Mt. McGregor Rd. : 1000 Mt. McGregor Rd., Wilton, NY 12831
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Diana O’Brien remembers her Greek father, a WW2 veteran, asking her brother if he needed a handkerchief as her brother headed out the door to Vietnam in 1966. Aside from language issues, her father had no words for the fear and love he felt for her brother. The handkerchief was his love letter.
During the Civil War, quilts made for soldiers were their own love letters, but were also battleground and medical gear. Also, there were ways, for mostly mothers, to express the angst in their hearts, and pass the time, until hopefully, their loved ones returned home from the most human costly war in American history.
Diana O’Brien, a Grant Cottage volunteer and award-winning quilter, will tell the unheralded story of Civil War quilts. Professionally made replica Civil War Quilts will be on display, including the most famous of Civil War quilts, the Stickles quilt, now on temporary display at the Bennington Museum.
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