Kaw Mission Open house will include quilt show, music and performances
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Council Grove— In honor of Kansas’ 148th birthday, the Kansas Historical Society and Kaw Mission State Historic Site will host the Celebrate Kansas! open house on Jan. 29.
The open house will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Jan. 20 and is free and open to the public. Friends of Kaw Heritage members will be dressed in period clothing and live music will be played by Jeremiah Hershberger on accordion and Charlie Laughridge on fiddle. They will play patriotic songs and there will be a group sing along.
The day will include a quilt show, “Stars, Stars, Stars!” at the Kaw Mission Education Center. Master Folk Artist Helen Ericson of Emporia will display quilts from her collection.
“Visitors to Stars, Stars, Stars! will see designs made with squares, triangles, diamonds and various other configurations,” Ericson said. “Some of the quilts are made of old, old fabric — others made of new fabric.”
Guests can bring stars to show Ericson.
Kenneth McClintock, a local historian, will give a first-person interpretation of T. Dwight Thacher, former editor of the Lawrence Journal addressing the crowd celebrating the 25th anniversary of Kansas statehood on Kansas Day 1886.
For more information on the event, contact the Kaw Mission at (620) 757-5410 or kawmission@kshs.org or visit www.kawmission.org.