PRWeb, a leader in online news and press release distribution, has been used by more than 40,000 organizations of all sizes to increase the visibility of their news, improve their search engine rankings and drive traffic to their Websites. Though families all but sit together at the dinner table these days, entrepreneur and artist, Carol Wright, is taking steps to ensure that family time is preserved through arts and crafts. Kelseyville, CA ( PRWEB ) April 12, 2009 — When commercials depicting family time air on television, it's usually families getting together at fast food restaurants or bonding while playing video games. Though the breakdown of the American family may not completely stop, it's rather comforting to know that a concerned family-oriented person like Carol Wright is taking action, as opposed to sitting back and idly watching families stop communication.

SACKETS HARBOR — For the first time in New York state, a rare collection of quilts and comforters used by children, Jewish fugitives, Nazi Resistance workers, and Mennonite refugees fleeing the post-war Soviet Union who were given shelter by a Dutch Mennonite woman will be on view Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, April 24 to June 28 at the Seaway Trail Discovery Center. The professionally designed interpretive and interactive exhibit features a rare collection of quilts and comforters made by Mennonite women in the United States and Canada; interpretive panels with historic images of wartime life in the Netherlands, and a DVD sharing the story of An and Herman Keuning-Tichelaar who sheltered people in their parsonage. The quilting tradition is a popular cultural and arts heritage travel theme for the 518-mile-long byway that has clusters of Mennonite and Amish quilters in its 11 counties along the St. A 22-mile loop tour off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail in Orleans County features more than 40 traditional quilt block patterns painted on barns. In August, the three-story, limestone Seaway Trail Discovery Center (built in 1817 as the Union Hotel) will host a presentation on the World War II refugees who found safe haven in Oswego from 1944 to 1946. For more information on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, visit online at www.

The Monday, April 19, 1909, edition of the Bangor Daily Commercial carried a piece headlined Chronology of Fancy Work, Old Time Patchwork Quilt is Now in Style. For, since artistic taste in house furnishing sanctions the rag carpets, braid mats and cross-stitch decorations of our grandmothers, it behooves the up-to-date woman to follow suit promptly. Like the rosewood and black walnut parlor sets, with their elaborate carvings, the marble mantlepieces, the brilliantly flowered carpets and the crystal chandeliers of the 1860s and 1870s, the specimens that survive mark a decadent taste. One must go back to the days of good models in mahogany, to the highboys, the four-posters and the spindle-legged chairs of Colonial days, and then the simple good taste of feminine handiwork is in the ascendant. A quilt must be judged from two points of view, the merit of its composition and the elaborateness of its quilting pattern. Contact Us | Help/FAQ | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Copyright ©2009 Bangor Publishing Co.

This quilt of wine glasses holding a variety of wines is by Susan Olds, of North Bend, who will give a free quilting lecture April 21 at the Issaquah Library. The North Bend resident is giving a lecture about the history of quilting at the Issaquah Library next week. Although the matriarchs in her family quilted â” except for her movie star mother, Ella Raines, whom Olds later taught to quilt â” Olds did not complete a quilt of her own until doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer 10 years ago. With a graduate school degree in art theory and contemporary art, Olds also gives regular art lectures. During her lecture, Olds will explain the historical significance of quilting in America.