Protected: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of National Poetry Month, April 2016
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Quilting as Community: A Trip to the Wood Memorial Library & Museum in South Windsor, Connecticut
The most vivid memory of my first visit to The Wood Memorial Library & Museum is of the 103 ½-inch-x-89-inch quilt that caught my eye when I walked in the main entrance and glanced toward the staircase that leads to the second floor. The South Windsor Bicentennial Quilt was
Celebrating National Quilting Month: Why I Make Quilts of All Sizes
– March is National Quilting Month. Poor Yorick celebrates with a series of essays reflecting upon this time-honored craft. Anyone can make a quilt. Seriously, anyone can do it. It’s like making a peanut butter sandwich, only with cloth, using the simplest tools imaginable: a sewing machine, or a sewing
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Call for Submissions: National Quilt Month, March 2016
– March is National Quilt Month and Poor Yorick is looking for essays and photos that highlight the artistry and tradition of this time-honored craft. Is there a quilt that is special to you, because of its design, history or place in your family? Do you have a related story
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Butler-McCook House Genealogical Research: Then and Now
– Hartford, Connecticut has a long history, starting in the seventeenth century. Many people, including Frances McCook of the Butler-McCook House on Main Street, have researched this city’s past to find out the impact the past had on current events. Frances McCook, born in 1877 in Hartford, had a passion
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At the End of the Ice at the Top of the World: Ghosts
Everything I’d been doing the past five days was surreal, so why should this moment be any different? Cresting a steep hill, I passed under a banner of Buddhist prayer flags and entered a wide plateau. Our guide set down his pack and called for a break as I struggled
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Skull Talk: Stone Church in Dover New York a Shrine of History & Natural Beauty
They call it the Stone Church. It’s a natural cavern above a brook in the woods off of Route 22 in Dover Plains, New York. Its entrance, formed by giant boulders, shaped haphazardly over the eons, forms an upside down “V” that gives it the appearance of a steeple. I
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An Interview with Sharon Woodward and David Moon on their Collaboration with the Documentary Film More Than Just a Mirror
– After viewing More Than Just a Mirror, a documentary on mirror dating back to the Iron Age, Poor Yorick reached out to the filmmaker to find out more. Sharon Woodward is a filmmaker and runs WoodwardMedia. She agreed to speak with us, and broadened the conversation by including David
The Mirror’s Eccentric History
– For millennia, mirrors have not only served as objects for personal grooming, but also for magic, light, weapons, and even prototype cameras. We’ve come a long way from that first mirror, a still puddle or pool with a dark bottom. Today’s man-made mirrors maintain reflective properties but add more
Interview with Jennifer DiCola Matos, Executive Director of the Noah Webster House
– Jennifer DiCola Matos is the executive director of the Noah Webster House in West Hartford, Connecticut. The house was the birthplace and early home of Noah Webster, author of The Blue Back Speller and An American Dictionary of the English Language. The house runs tours seven days a week
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