Quilt Walk To Be Feature of
Dairy Festival This Year

 

submitted by Billie Ruth Standbridge

 

The Lone Star Heritage Quilt Walk, starting just after the Dairy Festival Parade winds thru downtown, will take place along historic N. Davis St. up to the Public Library on June 14.    Marjorie Martin, along with her husband Tony, owners of Town Square Antique Mall, and homeowners along N. Davis, were instrumental in enlisting the other home owners in offering their porches for the Quilt Walk.   Lone Star Heritage Quilt Guild members will display quilts hanging over porch railings, draped over swings and chairs, and even over shrubbery. 

 

Billie Ruth Standbridge and Deanna Hasten emphasize that this event was received so positively during Hopkins County Sesquicentennial celebration several years ago, that the guild was asked to do it again.  This time it was done in corporation with the Dairy Festival events.  In addition to the beautiful homes, this piece of Americana will be enhanced with the presence of Guild member Nita Cason’s husband’s 1937 Ford V8 Flathead pickup truck parked by the Guild’s raffle quilt at the library.  Mr. Cason will also have his prized 1930 Model A Roadster parked at one of the other display homes.  Come stroll the sidewalks along this lovely street, come up and see the quilts close, talk to the quilters.  This is history on display, with much to admire, both of yesteryear, and of today.

 

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