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For the next year, quilt lovers will have an opportunity to see at least 25 of the rarely exhibited quilts in the collection of the York County Heritage Trust in York, Pennsylvania. The antique textiles, many dating from 1800s, will be on display until January 31, 2006, in an exhibition entitled Quilts: A Testimony to Friendship. Patterns for some of the quilts are included in the newly released Vintage Quilts magazine, produced by our sister publication McCall's Quilting. For more information, see Extra Credit. Shown below is Star of Bethlehem, 104" x 104", c. 1875, a gift to the Trust from the Odessa Fraser Frey family. The quilt was once exhibited at the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia, held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. For more information about the Trust's exhibition, contact YCHT at 250 E. Market St., York, PA 17403; www.yorkheritage.org.
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