Amish quilts featured at Parma Museum Show

Amish quilts will hold the spotlight at the spring program of the Parma Meetinghouse Museum, May 4 and 5 at 460 Parma Center Road. The quilt show will be held both days from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m., with talks each day at 2 p.m. by Parma Town Historian Shirley Cox Husted relating her experiences in working with residents of an Amish community near Gowanda.

Quilts made by members of the Parma Meetinghouse Committee and members of the Heart and Hands Quilt Club of Hilton will also be shown and there will be a drawing for a tumbling block quilt. Quilted items from the Conewango Valley near Gowanda and an Amish settlement in Ohio will be featured, plus a miniature Amish village created from Amish collectibles will be shown. There is no admission charge.

The quilt items from New York were created by Elizabeth Yoder, an Amish farm wife in the Gowanda area. Two were created through an $887 grant from the New York Council For the Humanities in New York City which helped to fund an Humanities Month display in October 2001 at McCracken Farms in Sweden. Others were commissioned by Husted for her personal collection.