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Episode 8 - Quilt Stories from Beyond the Grave - Six Know-It-Alls - Oct 13, 2021

Alden O’Brien presents a quilt covered in images related to a family tragedy and national news story of long ago. Why would anyone want a story of crime and death on their bed? This is the month to discuss it! Barbara Brackman thinks October is the time for scary stories. How about some tales of Bleeding Reds -- TRUE horror stories? Lynne Bassett shares an 1868 fundraising quilt created by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the First Spiritualist Society of Willimantic, Connecticut, and opens a discussion about the Spiritualist religious movement of the 19th century, whose members used mediums in séances to speak to the dead. Appliqued motifs on the quilt represent the practices and beliefs of Spiritualism’s followers. Debby Cooney looks at how quilts, among other textiles, have recorded loss and grief through images, pattern, and words. In some communities, quilts covered coffins during their final journeys. Quilts present symbolic shapes of willows or broken flowers; patterns of coffins and grave monuments were even sold commercially. A few memorable examples show stark representations of grave sites and tombstones. Bibliography Bassett, Lynne. Gothic to Goth: Romantic Era Fashion and Its Legacy. Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2016. The Connecticut Quilt Search Project. Quilts and Quiltmakers Covering Connecticut. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2002. Gebel, Carol Williams. “Quilts in the Final Rite of Passage: A Multicultural Study,” in Uncoverings 1995, Volume 16 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group. Lipsett, Linda Otto. Elizabeth Roseberry Mitchell's Graveyard Quilt: An American Pioneer Saga. Dayton, OH: Halstead & Meadows, 1995. Weisberg, Barbara. Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004.