Category: Quilts

• Electra’s Things

  1–2 minutes

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  November 24, 2013

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  Art, Decorative Arts, Design, flora and fauna, historic sites, Inspiring People, Local Roaming, Museum, Quilts, Wanderings

  Across Lake Champlain from here lies an amazing collection started by Electra Havemeyer Webb (August 16, 1888 – November 19, 1960) and opened as a museum in 1947. Shelburne Museum is located on what once was Electra’s in-laws farm in Vermont. Electra married an heir to the Vanderbilt fortune and spent many happy days at their…

  

• Lena’s Crazy Quilt

  3–4 minutes

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  March 28, 2013

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  Art, Decorative Arts, Inspiring People, Living Simply, Local Roaming, Museum, Quilts, Soul Food, Wanderings

  Over the 87 years The Alice has operated as a museum there have been times when interesting objects and letters came into the collection as donations or bequests. The museum has become a repository for genealogy and local history information as well as for some objects and textiles donated by local families. It is a…