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Hand- Made Quilt Is Tribute To Founders By Mrs. L. E. Brooks ' One of the outstanding displays .featured at this year’s Prince Ed- ward County Fair at Picton will be that sponsored hy the Prince Edward District Women's Insti~ 1 lute. . In 1967 the women began a pro ‘j'eot as a tribute to the founding men and women of the county. . Media for this message is a beautiful handâ€"made quilt. Like so many activities and products of those activities of our forefathers, ‘ quilting bees provided the women not only with an opportunity for get togethers in order to exchange the latest recipes and gossip, but also an opportunity to create an individual dualized object of artis- tic as well as utilitarian beauty. This is in great contrast :to our, modern age which manufactures: thousands of identical objects which are designed to give one rather than one hundred years of service. The quilt itself was selected to illustrate this Way of life before the machine age. The modern hip- pie movement claims to have in- vented the idea of the creative en- ergy force of doing your own thing. They did not invent Iit. They just reminded the world of its exist- once. The quilt: ‘bloeks were prepared by the/individual eleven branches 10f the Prince Edward County Dis- tric’c Women's Institute and the quilting itself was completed by the - Cherry Valley Branch Below you may read an outline of the histor- Meal background of each of the ‘scelnes on the quillt IAny correc- icons of factual material will be gladly received. Special thanks should go to aim the people in the county whose contributions mader the project a success. Add the W0 men's Institute display to your itinâ€" enary for the Fair this Fall. IAme/iastrg/r Museum Is DGStinatI'on For C olorfu/ Centennial Quilt Pro/ed" M is. Bernard firming displays WJ. handiwork. ~23