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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

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Her six page paper that includes the poem, in French, is available to read on .

In considering topics of history or quilt history, it is always best to keep our minds open and to avoid being didactic. Inevitably, there will be exceptions to any generalization. Each anomaly must be considered as a separate event, as Ms. Janniere has so successfully done. The article is riveting and adds another manner of looking for proof of early French patchwork quilts.

Perhaps, future quilt historians will try to determine which quilt styles were popular, in the late 20th century, by comparing those quilts that are constantly draped on beds or chairs, in movies. It is an artificial way to consider the topic, but it is at the very least “one way.” In the absence of other information, such a study could add at least “some” information.

As the academic community places more of their extant ephemera and photos of quilts, online, there will be greater potential for understanding of quilts and their historical connections by the general public and all interested parties.

Many thanks to the Quilt Index for making this piece of ephemera available on its website, and many thanks to The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc. for their quality publications that are still “giving” today. I found the link on Lisa Evan’s yahoo group for the study of medieval quilting. Thanks, Lisa.

Patricia Cummings
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Tonight, at 10:28 p.m., I have been thinking about the power of the printed word and how it stays with us, even if/when it is not true. A few weeks ago, I made an outrageous statement that irritated a few people who belong to a certain list. I simply stated that I do not read historical novels because I don’t want to “pollute” my mind. My intention was clear cut. I was not putting down the reading selections of anyone else. It was an “I” statement. I only want to read history that is actually true. In the past, I certainly have enjoyed historical novels, especially one of the most famous ones, buy authentic cialis online, which I read in high school and saw the movie about the same time.

It is a challenge to read and to write history. Sometimes, it is not what we say, but what we leave out, that make what we have said an incorrect statement. As history gets rewritten, it often becomes wrong and the intent of the original writer is lost in the rewriting of a story. That is partially due to the loss of infused meanings due to the manner of speech alignments and patterning. In other words, how one states something is as important as what is said. In speaking out loud with each other, we can infer the emotional state of the speaker by listening to verbal clues such as loudness of speech, its rapidity, and we can see other non-verbal cues such as waving one’s hands in the air, making a fist, or turning red in the face. We don’t have the advantage of visual clues in the written word.

The main reason I am considering this subject of history and how it is imparted is that I am recalling many mistakes that have been made in books and magazine articles about quilt history, for nearly 100 years. Mistakes continue today. One recurring one surrounds the idea that quilting started in the United States, and in colonial times, and that it began with colonists cutting up their tattered garments to make quilts out of used clothing. Nothing could be further from the truth.

In my latest e-book, buy authentic cialis online, I speak about the earliest extant examples of quilts. They were not pieced, any more than the few quilts made during the colonial period in America were, a period that ended, ostensibly, in 1776, when America became a country. A certain writer claims that pieced blocks have their roots in colonial America. It would be a stretch for anyone to prove that point. Wholecloth quilts, either brought with the colonists, or made here, ruled the day during the time period we consider to be colonial times.

The trouble with people getting information “wrong,” is that students and researchers often access the writings of those who have previously investigated a subject. In gathering “facts” from books, they simply repeat the same mistakes, over and over and over again. That is one reason why the Underground Railroad Secret Quilt Code continues to be promoted in some circles. A lot of advertising was given to the false concept. A certain historian credits Raymond Dobard, Jr., Ph.D. with being the first to publish a book about the “code.” That is not true either.

If you recall, the idea of a secret quilt code to assist escaping slaves was first promoted in a fictional book for children in 1982. (Files on my website describe the whole situation). As far as I know, I was the first to create an illustrated description and explanation of why the quilt code did not add up, providing examples of each purported quilt block in the code, even if I had to create the quilt block myself. Initially, that article, a 4,000 word essay, was printed in a newspaper. Later, I wrote two more articles for buy authentic cialis online magazine, and buy authentic cialis online magazine offered their readers a 10 page summary, based on my initial article. As far as I know, my newspaper disputation was the first in print for a mainstream America audience.

Recently, I was told that there is a great deal of pressure to bring academic writings to the point of publication. For that reason, sometimes work is not as thorough or exact as it could be. I could continue pointing out errors printed in books, etc., but I will not.

If you are a writer, please pay attention. Do not take anything for granted, or write it down because you “assume” it to be true. Please be more careful and check your facts, because in the long run, more damage will be done if you get it wrong. Remember this: If you don’t know something, it is not a sin to ask someone who does know, or to do more research. In the cases cited above, a simple visit to my website would have cleared up some misinformation before it made its way into gigantic tomes of the “latest” books on quilt history.

Patricia Cummings

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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

“A Musing”

poem by Patricia Cummings – copyright 2010

Come into my cottage
all set for tea.
We shall speak of a world
that never could be.

Come into my parlor.
It won’t be long
before I’ll sing you a little song,
knowing that shortly you must run along.

Come into my house
that does not have a mouse.
Ever so clean, you can see it gleam.
Time is so short, or so it seems.

Come into my heart
and there you shall stay,
Even when you are far away,
Now, and forever … and a day.

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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Perhaps it is human nature to want to leave something of ourselves behind when our journey is finished. After my mother died, I found that she had clipped off a curl of gray hair and had simply laid it in one of the compartments of her jewelry box. I suppose, scientifically-speaking, it could be analyzed to check the DNA that would be present. It might even unlock certain mysteries about family genetics. That idea aside, saving hair from loved ones is an age old tradition. In some cases, hair was stored in special lockets.

This whole idea came to mind today when I was watching a movie of which I did not even catch the title. It was offered on the Sundance movie channel where thought-provoking films about human emotion and behavior often are presented. In this case, a young man had been found on a beach by two women. When they noticed that he was still breathing, they transported him to their cottage. He had sustained a broken foot. He was Polish and could speak a little German, the language with which he could communicate with one of the women, her with dictionary in hand. He had been shipwrecked or somehow had fallen off of a vessel and nearly drowned.

In one scene, he is being given a haircut by one of the women, outside, and the other woman who stayed behind, picked up a locket of his hair. She was fond of him, to say the least. Later in the movie, she stands by the sea, and releases the hair to the wind, symbolic no doubt of releasing her affections for the lad so that he could be free to go on his way and live his life. It was a way for her to acknowledge his recovery.

Hair is important to Vanity. I think back to my mother’s desire to become a hairdresser when she was very young, before she was forced to drop out of high school so that she could work in the Amoskeag Mills just to help feed her family of origin: 13 souls. She earned $12.50 per week, and was allowed by her parents to keep 50 cents. She would offer to give home permanents to her friends and they would return the favor. She fussed over hair all of her life. In a sense, it is fitting that she left behind a piece of her hair.

Whenever I was with my mother, she’d tell me my hair was too short, or if it was long, then it was too straggly. She’d say I needed curls, and then, when I had curls, she’d say that she liked my hair better straight. There was never any pleasing to be done in the hair department. During high school, girls wanted to look like Cher and began ironing their hair. I drew the limit at that.

The amount of hair on the heads of men is controlled by genes, passed through the maternal line, if I remember correctly. There is little to be done for hair loss, except for hair transplants. Massaging the scalp stimulates hair follicles to grow and can help prevent some hair loss. Some men decide to just keep their heads shaven.

In further thinking about hair, I remember that a friend of mine did not want to be seen in her last days because she was completely bald from cancer treatments. The caps that are donated to oncology units are so helpful! Thyroid issues can also have a huge impact on hair loss, but doctors can prescribe a thyroid replacement hormone to counteract the effect.

Back in the day, as they say, it was not uncommon for women to wear curlers all the time, even out to the market. One always wondered where they were going that night and what event was so much more important than being seen in public that they would risk looking goofy during the daytime. Over time, the art of hairdressing has changed. We now have uni-sex salons. Have you noticed that there are hardly any barbers left?

I am amused by old movies that show the courts of England with men wearing powdered wigs. Yes, vanity prevailed even then. As always, I am mostly amused by people, in general … more fun than a barrel of monkeys! No matter what, “hair” rules the day. If you wonder whether or not that is true, just think of the expression, “bad hair day,” and then, go hug your hairdresser!

Patricia Cummings

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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

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Books at the 25th Street Armory
January 15 – 16
69th Regiment Armory
New York, NY

New Hope Winter Antiques Show
January 16 – 17
Eagle Fire Hall
New Hope, PA

Lawrenceville / Princeton Antiques Show
February 13 – 14
National Guard Armory
Lawrenceville, NJ

Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XXI
February 25 – 28
Hampton Roads Convention Center
Hampton, VA

The Quilt Fest of New Jersey VI
March 4 – 7
Garden State Exhibit Center
Somerset, NJ

Denver National Quilt Festival V
April 29 – May 2
Denver Merchandise Mart
Denver, CO

World Quilt Show – New England
Premier of the 2010 World Quilt Show XIV
August 19 – 22
Radisson Center of New Hampshire
Manchester, NH

Historic New Castle Antiques Show
August 29
Battery Park
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Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XVII
September 16 – 19
Greater Philadelphia Expo Center
Oaks, PA

Pacific International Quilt Festival XIX
October 14 – 17
Santa Clara Convention Center
Santa Clara, CA

World Quilt Show – Florida
Grand Finale of the 2010 World Quilt Show XIV
November 12 – 14
Palm Beach County Convention Center
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Friday, January 1st, 2010

Within the hour, we will begin a new decade. There is much work that needs to be done in the world. Most of us cannot effect, or even affect, major world events, one way or another. All of us can do our part by being honest, trying to have fair dealings with other people, by giving credit where credit is due, and being unselfish servants to the common good. We can mentor a child or help an adult who is struggling to learn how to read. We can go to the polls to vote, and we can offer to do community service work in some measure, even if that means picking up litter along the sidewalk where you walk your dog. We can leave more of a tip than is necessary, and we can smile at those in service to us to show our gratitude.

On this New Year’s Eve, it is impossible not to recall that this is the beginning of the Year of the Tiger. In southeast Asia, Tigers have been hunted to near extinction and are an endangered species. They are sold for $10,000 on the black market and their “parts” are processed into expensive aphrodisiacs. In one of the articles I wrote for buy authentic cialis online magazine this past year, an embroidered Tiger was featured. The Tiger is both revered and feared in southeast Asia. When a Tiger enters a village, it can easily haul off a baby or young child.

As I stated on Facebook, earlier this week, the buy authentic cialis online reported that the government of Thailand is now expatriating the Hmong people who have found sanctuary there since the end of the Vietnam War. The Thais are putting the Hmong on a bus that transports them across the dangerous Mekong River, the very river in which so many Hmong died while trying to escape their communist enemies at the end of the war. Without regard for the genocide that will ensue, the government of Thailand is sending the victims back to Laos to face sure annihilation. This is a clear violation of human rights and right to life.

We have not passed a final health care bill yet, and it will take more “doing” than most of us realize to accomplish that. Meanwhile, special concessions have been granted to certain members of Congress who are milking whatever they can get for a sweet deal for their own constituents.

In other local news, a terrorist nearly succeeded in blowing up 300 people in a plane over Detroit. How was he allowed to come from Africa and buy a one-way ticket, after U.S. officials had been warned by his father? No specific person in government was assigned the right to ban him from entering the country or was responsible for doing so. This is one reason that I, personally, will NEVER choose to fly again. It is a far different world today than when I traveled all by myself through Spain in 1972. Today, there were two muggings in Manchester, NH, as potential robbers tried to grab purses. The victims were women and one was thrown to the ground, sustaining a broken shoulder.

Christmastime saw thieves following package delivery trucks and then stealing packages in New Hampshire towns, particularly in exclusive neighborhoods where couples both work in order to pay for their lovely homes. In Exeter, New Hampshire, a man pre-paid a season’s worth of oil, only to have an empty oil tank as temperatures sank below zero. The company could not be reached. The authorities had to intervene to arrange a delivery. All’s well that ends well.

One situation that did not end well was that a dear friend of mine was laid off from the local hospital. Why? She was told that all of the medical transcription work, from now on, is now going to be done in India. Nice, huh? This is a real slap in the face to a dedicated worker who has spent years performing this task and is very good at what she does. What are they thinking?

The world can be a very disheartening place. Maybe people are not supposed to get along. Perhaps, life has to continue to be a struggle, with the rich only getting richer and the poor having hardly two nickels to rub together.

A good resolution would be to stop listening to the news, to turn off the phone, and to just devote oneself to a hobby, whether it is beading, stamp collecting, or making widgets (what is a widget?). Whatever you choose to do, I hope that you will find personal fulfillment during 2010, and some love, along the way. In the end, love is all that counts. To love is to overcome selfishness and put someone else’s needs first. Only mature people can give love. May love brighten your life. The more love you give, the more you will have.

Peace,

Patricia