RVHS pottery and quilt show features treasures

Twenty never displayed before quilts from the valley will be on display both days; from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, the Hawthorn pottery display will be held; and the Purinton pottery display will be held from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 18.

During the Purinton Pottery show at 2 p.m., Gary Purinton, whose grandfather was the owner of the Purinton Pottery, will present a talk and show examples of his family’s pieces of pottery.

Raffle tickets will be available for sale of the beautiful Seven Sisters quilt made by Master quilter Carol Kennemuth. Cost is $5 per ticket.

Tickets can be purchased from any historical society board member. Drawing will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18.

A funeral director at the time gave Shoup a box full of scraps. These were satin linings from caskets, and he asked her to make a quilt. The pattern is a crazy quilt.When the quilt was finished, he told her to keep it.

The family’s joke was that “Nobody would sleep under it.” The quilt was donated by Carolyn Miller of Shannondale, Shoup’s granddaughter.

The second story is about a tumbling block quilt made by Sandy Anderson to celebrate and honor her mother’s accomplishment to stop smoking in 1979.

Anderson used scraps of materials from events in their lives, such as original Fleebus clown pieces. Fred, her husband, portrayed Fleebus the Clown for many years in the community. The quilt tells of a daughter’s love for her mother. Anderson said, “It speaks for itself.”

The last is an original top from the 1860s to the 1890s of a sour apple green fabric made by Carol Kennemuth’s great-grandmother Lou Emma Humphrey. The fabric of cotton muslin with pieces of the sour apple green fabric was sewn by hand and machine. It is an excellent example of quilts from that period.