Feedsack Expert, Quilt Historian To Appear At Bird-in-Hand
BIRD-IN-HAND (Lancaster
Co.) “For many women with a
rural background, looking at the
feedsack exhibit and historical
quilts at the Hometowne Heritage
Days will be a trip down memory
lane. Feedsacks played an inte
gral role in the fabrics of our his
tory as well as in the history of
fabric. In fact, they clothed
Americans in the early 1900 s!”
The quote is from Jane Clark
Stapel, a feedsack expert known
as the Bag Lady. Stapel, joined
by fabric identification expert
and quilt historian Gloria Hall,
will kick off the Bird-in-Hand
Hometowne Heritage Days Cele
bration during the grand opening
ceremony on Sept. 7 at 10 a.m.
Joining these “material girls” will
be members of the Feedsack
Club, the fourth grade class at
Hinkletown Mennonite Elemen
tary School, and residents from
the Landis Home as they “tie off’
the final panels in an “Interna
tional Feedsack Quilt.”
The International Feedsack
Quilt, with a theme of “Reaching
Into the Past to Preserve the Fu
ture,” is being made exclusively
for a special intergenerational
and educational project in coop
eration with the Hinkletown
Mennonite Elementary and the
Landis Home. The commemora
tive quilt, created from 80 feed
sack swatches donated from
around the world that are signed
with the name and location and
date of all participants, will be
displayed throughout Home
towne Heritage Days then auc
tioned off via the Website
www.members.aol.com/
bagladylll. The auction will
close at the April 2002 Feedsack
Club Annual Conference. The
winner wi|l receive the quilt as
well as a certificate of authentici-
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According to Heritage Days
Planning Committee Chairman
John Smucker, Stapel and Hall
will share the history of fabrics.
Stapel will bring her trunk show
a traveling exhibit with color
ful dresses, aprons, quilts and
bonnets all created from feed
sacks and will recount humor
ous anecdotes of her association
with feedsacks. Hall, who will
provide quilt appraisals for a
nominal fee, will bring a few of
her favorite quilts. Appraisals,
available both written or oral, are
by appointment only.
“The importance of feedsacks
and quilts in our American Heri
tage complements the theme of
this year’s Hometowne Heritage
Days, “Renewing Old Memories
and Creating New,” said Smuck
er.”
With that theme in mind,
Bird-in-Hand representative
Nancy Hess, a feedsack collector
herself, has worked with Harriet
Douples fourth grade class and
the Landis Home to create The
Grandpal Project, an
intergenerational/educational
service project. The students,
who will meet their grandpal for
the first time at the ceremony,
will wear feedsack clothing and
tie off the quilt, while the grand
pals share memories. The chil
dren will later write about the ex
perience. Other projects
completed by the students for the
program will be on display for
the weekend.
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worldwide, the Feedsack Club is
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searching the fabric bags. Stapel
publishes a bimonthly newsletter.
Switches and Swatches, focusing
on the collectible sacks and act
ing as forum for members who
want to buy, sell, and trade the
feedsacks. She is currently work
ing with Hess to accumulate sto
ries for a future book. Visitors to
Hometowne Heritage Days are
encouraged to visit the feedsack
booth and share tales for use in
the book.
Bird-in-Hand Hometowne
Heritage Days will also feature
local craftsmen and artisans, a
Pennsylvania Dutch Food Fair
with hands-on demonstrations of
the traditional dishes, and a
quilting bee.
Special events scheduled for
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Sauer’s Herbal Cures Book Signing At Ephrata Cloister
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
Colonial Americans seeking relief
from aches and pains rarely
turned to doctors. Most
medical care was found in
the home, or in the home
garden to be more precise.
Small remedy books offered
advice on various herbs and
their particular characteris
tics that could provide ev
erything from a soothing
nerve tonic to hair dye.
One of the most popular
and influential of these
works among the Pennsyl
vania Germans was the seri
al publication of German
town printer Christopher
Sauer. Now for the first
the weekend are a free bluegrass
concert with the Lykins Valley
Bluegrass Band, on Friday at 6
p.m. and Saturday, the Eastern
Lancaster County Sertoma Club
28th Annual Country Auction
will start at 9 a.m. The Sertoma
Club will also have a chicken bar
becue on Friday, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
and on Saturday, starting at 11
a.m. The club will serve breakfast
on Saturday morning at 7 a.m.
Other activities include a corn
field maze, a petting zoo, a per
forming pig act, horse-drawn
wagon rides, and the second an
nual Bird-in-Hand Open, played
at the Waters Edge Mini Golf
Course.
The Bird-in-Hand Hometowne
Heritage Days is organized by the
and Wildlife Education” Web
site: http://www. natural
resources.umd.edu.
Designed for forest and farm
landowners, natural resource
professionals, educators, public
officials and environmentally
concerned citizens, the site con
tains a wealth of information on
managing forest, wildlife and re
lated water resources. Forestry
and wildlife training opportuni
ties for youth and adults; a for
estry newsletter called Branching
Out; a calendar of educational
time in two centuries, the herbal
advice offered to Sauer’s readers
is available in a new English edi
tion as Sauer’s Herbal Cures,
translated and annotated by
noted food historian William
Woys Weaver. The Museum
Store at Ephrata Cloister is spon
soring a book signing by Weaver
on Saturday, Sept. 8 from 10:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Lancaster f •
See pages 823-830
Bird-in-Hand Corporation and
underwritten by Hometowne
Heritage Bank. Other sponsors
are Turkey Hill, Sauder’s Eggs,
and WIOV. The event will be
conducted in Bird-in-Hand on
Rt. 340 (Old Philadelphia Pike),
across from the Bird-in-Hand
Family Inn.
The festival is scheduled for
Friday, Sept. 7, from 11 a.m. to 7
p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 8, 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. on Rt. 340 in Bird
in-Hand in Lancaster County.
Sunday evening of festival week
end will conclude with an old
fashioned hymn sing at 7 p.m.
For more information call
(717) 768-8272 or visit the Web
site at www.bird-in-hand.com/
events.
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“The beauty of this Website is
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wildlife-related topics in one
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tension regional natural resources
specialist. “Chances are, you’ll
find a link to the information
you’re looking for without having
to conduct a time-consuming
search in many different places.”
Ephrata Cloister is located in
Ephrata Borough, Lancaster
County, on Route 322 at the in
tersection with Route 272. The
historic site is open Monday
through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. and Sunday from noon to S
p.m. For more information call
(717)733-6600.