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		<title>The New England Quilt Museum Announces New Exhibition</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/02/23/the-new-england-quilt-museum-announces-new-exhibition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Women's Writes: new exhibit at NEQM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New England Quilt Museum Announces New Exhibition:
Women’s Writes: Signature Quilts and Their Stories
A groundbreaking examination of a vital aspect of women’s material history in the 19th century.
Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to speak at NEQM in June.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 23, 2010 &#8212; The New England Quilt Museum is pleased to announce their groundbreaking exhibition on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum to Offer Quilts and Historical Overview</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2010/01/30/museum-to-offer-quilts-and-historical-overview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NH Historical Society Announcement:
Friday, Feb.  26, 2010.  New Exhibition Opens- &#8220;Pieced Together: New Hampshire Quilts &#038; Their Stories.&#8221; With their beautiful colors and extraordinary patterns, quilts are both works of art and records of our lives. Fifty quilts, patterns, and related quilt-making objects made during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New England Quilt Museum News</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/12/15/new-england-quilt-museum-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Amish Quilts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amish Crib Quilts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bettina Havig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorothy Bosselman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerald Roy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE

Spider Web Crib Quilt, early 20th century. Collection of Sara Miller. Photo by Lisa Bisson
Lowell, MA—December 15, 2009—The New England Quilt Museum is very excited to announce their first exhibition of the 2010 season, Bettina Havig’s &#8220;Kinder Komforts: Amish Crib Quilts.&#8221; This exhibition will bring together many of the most remarkable examples of Amish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fairbanks Museum &amp; Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, Vermont</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/12/08/fairbanks-museum-planetarium-st-johnsbury-vermont/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/12/08/fairbanks-museum-planetarium-st-johnsbury-vermont/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Being a New Hampshire-ite, I never heard much about St. Johnsbury, Vermont except that my Aunt Mabel Grace once taught music there, and that her sister, Virginia, and her mother (my grandmother), lived there at that time. My father and mother would visit, by all accounts, but that was before my time, as I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Material Goods and their Extended Meanings</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/12/03/material-goods-and-their-extended-meanings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Straight Talk About Quilt Care II]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This blog entry began as a conversation over dinner about people and the way that they hoard material goods. We could not help but think of my (late) mother. She was obsessive-compulsive about what was &#8220;hers,&#8221; and worried about someone else having anything that belonged to her. She even took a permanent marker to mark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement of Indiana State Museum&#8217;s Quilt Collection Artifact Database</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/11/19/announcement-of-indiana-state-museums-quilt-collection-artifact-database/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter to the Editor:
Hello, My name is Traci Cromwell and I am the Cultural History Collections Manager at the Indiana State Museum. I am trying to get the word out about the museum&#8217;s quilt collection that is available for research online in the artifact collection database. See Indiana State Museum online database. Currently we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from the Manchester, NH Historic Association</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/11/01/letter-from-the-manchester-nh-historic-association/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/11/01/letter-from-the-manchester-nh-historic-association/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear members and other friends of the Manchester Historic Association,
I am pleased to announce a new event presented by the Manchester Historic Association. On Thursday, November 19 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. the Millyard Museum will be the scene of the &#8220;Night at the Millyard Museum &#8211; Where History Comes to Life,&#8221; an event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemporary Master Quilters Exhibition Opens November 19 at The New England Quilt Museum</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/10/13/contemporary-master-quilters-exhibition-opens-november-19-at-the-new-england-quilt-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quilt Show]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release
Lowell, MA—October 12, 2009. The New England Quilt Museum is excited to announce their new exhibition of international art quilts. &#8220;Masters: 40 Contemporary Master Quilters,&#8221; opens November 19, 2009 and explores the cutting edge of art quilting, with today’s most regarded global quilt artists represented in this comprehensive exhibition. 
Guest curator Martha Sielman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New England Quilt Museum Offers Activities to Honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/20/new-england-quilt-museum-activities-to-honor-breast-cancer-awareness-month-in-october/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/20/new-england-quilt-museum-activities-to-honor-breast-cancer-awareness-month-in-october/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Breast Cancer Awareness Exhibit of Quilts and Decorativ]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ANNOUNCEMENT

Artfully-made Bras by Barbara Malek, Lyn Walfish, and Beth Licari (clockwise from top).
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. The New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts, will feature an exhibit of bras and quilts made by, for, or in memory of women with breast cancer. Both the bras and the quilts were designed and created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constitution Day Observed with Talk Presented by Richard Hesse &#8211; Professor Emeritus</title>
		<link>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/17/constitution-day-observed-with-talk-presented-by-richard-hesse-professor-emeritus/</link>
		<comments>http://quiltersmuse.com/blog/2009/09/17/constitution-day-observed-with-talk-presented-by-richard-hesse-professor-emeritus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard A. Hesse, Emeritus Professor of Law at Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire, presented a talk titled, &#8220;Free Speech in a Free Society,&#8221; at Folsom Tavern on the grounds of the American Independence Museum in Exeter, New Hampshire, on September 17, 2009. The information was organized and presented in a flawless manner, reflecting [...]]]></description>
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