Mountain Times ~ Supplement to the Pocahontas Times ~ SnowShoe, Slatyfork, Green Bank, Cass, WV

Focusing on the resort and tourist community of Slaty Fork, Snowshoe Mountain, Cass and Green Bank

Vol. 4 No. 7
July 2005

Serving SnowShoe Mountain, Slaty Fork, Green Bank and Cass
"News you can resort to"

Second Section of
The Pocahontas Times
Post Office No. 436-640
ISSN No. 07388373

Upcoming Events Around the Mountain Resort

JULY
AROUND THE COUNTY
Every Thursday € Wake up and See Stars € National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, 304-456-2150. Gather at the planetarium balloon every Thursday for a unique look at the sky. $3 per person, reservations are suggested. Program begins at 2 p.m.
Every Thursday € Wake up and See Stars National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, 304-456-2150. Gather at the planetarium balloon every Thursday for a unique look at the sky. $3 per person, reservations are suggested. Program begins at 2 p.m.
Every Saturday in July. Fiddles and Vittles Train, Cass Scenic Railroad State Park € 304-456-4300 or 800-CALL-WVA. Back for another yeartake a train ride to Whittaker Station and enjoy dinner and live bluegrass music along the way.
July 29 € Murder Mystery Train Cass Scenic Railroad State Park € 304-456-4300 or 800-CALL-WVA. Come enjoy this who-done-it train ride to Whittaker; includes dinner and entertainment. Train departs at 5 p.m. Make your reservations early; you won't want to miss this one!
July 2 - 30 € West Virginia Fitness and Adventure Retreat Cranberry Mountain Lodge near Hillsboro € 410-772-1694. Hosted by professional chef and fitness enthusiast Daniel Jonas. Choose from six sessions (four and five nights) and experience a unique vacation experience. It's hiking, biking, and adventure racing in and around the Cranberry Glades, the Scenic Highway, Monongahela National Forest, and Greenbrier Trail. Enjoy the nearby state parks: Watoga, Beartown, and Droop Mtn. Activities are non-competitive and fully supported. Fresh seasonal cuisine prepared by your host. Other activities include cooking demos and book discussion. Experience the full sessions or call ahead to enjoy dinner at the Lodge.
July 4 - 7 & July 31 - Aug. 3 € Greenbrier River Inn to Inn, Elk River Touring Center 800-572-3771 or 572-3771. Experience the offroad countryside of Pocahontas County at your leisure. Stay at the Elk River Inn your first night, then shuttle to Cass and cycle the Greenbrier River Trail. Stay at another B&B along the trail in Marlinton, on your third day cycle north to a B&B right on the trail. Beginner to intermediate riding, great trip for families and couples. Travel 50-63 miles. We shuttle all your gear. Just have to pedal at your own pace!
July 6 - 10 € Pioneer Days, Marlinton 800-336-7009. 39th Annual Celebration. Come enjoy the fun which includes Bluegrass and Old Time Mountain music, street dances, arts and crafts, Pioneer Village, horse & buggy rides, mudbog, tractor pull, horse show and much, much more.
July 9 € Party Under the Stars NRAO, Green Bank € 304-456-2150. NRAO Staff will orient you to the star-filled sky and then view the night sky on the Star Party Patio. Bring optical telescopes and binoculars - you won't believe the view! Program begins 30 minutes before dark.
July 13, 27 € High Tech Wednesday, NRAO, Green Bank 304-456-2150. Take a guided tour though parts of NRAO normally off limits to visitors like lab areas where sensitive receivers are designed and built. Space is limited to 15; cost is $3.00 so make reservations early.
July 15 - 17 € Fly Fishing Weekend, Elk River Touring Center 800-572-3771 or 572-3771. We offer weekend and four-day midweek fly fishing schools including lodging, meals, equipment, flies, and instruction. Geared toward beginner to intermediate anglers who want to hone their fly fishing techniques. Our guides are experienced in all aspects of instruction.
July 18 - 22 € Harley Dressers 28th International Rally, Pocahontas County 800-336-7009. Come ride the beautiful highways and byways of Pocahontas County with your Dresser Association friends. Stay at a luxury motel or enjoy camping by the gorgeous Greenbrier River.
July 20 - 23 € Durbin Days, Durbin, 800-336-7009. Come enjoy the fun. Antique car show, carnival, craft show, train rides, a Grand Parade, fireworks, live entertainment and much, much more.
July 23 € Moonlight Fire on the Greenbrier Rail Excursion, Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad, Durbin 877-686-7245. Offered on full moon nights, this late evening excursion aboard the steam-powered Climax train begins with a buffet dinner at the Durbin Depot followed by a trip along the beautiful, moonlit Greenbrier River. See the stars in this remote wilderness, far from ambient light, and follow the reflection of the moon as it shines on the river. Train departs the depot at 8 p.m.

On The Mountain

For more info about any events at Snowshoe, call 877-441-4FUN or visit online at www.snowshoemtn.com
July 8 - 10 € 13th Annual Fire on the Mountain Chili Cook-off One of the largest and best cook-offs in the country, the Fire on the Mountain Chili Cook-off offers a $10,000 first prize for best chili. Live entertainment, family fun, arts and crafts and plenty of chili tastin' from some of the East's best chili cooks make this one of the best event weekends of the year.
July 14 - 17 € WV State Harley Owners Group Rally The HOGS return to Snowshoe Mountain for five days of motorcycle touring, vendors, bike shows, biker games and live entertainment exclusive to West Virginia Harley Owner's Group members.
July 20 - 24 € Snowshoe Freedom Fest West Virginia's Motorcycle Rally The perfect week for the motorcycle enthusiast . . . all brands welcome. Bike shows, live entertainment, great times with friends and some of the best mountain road touring in the East make this rally one not to miss.
Jul 27 - 31 € The Snowshoe Institute This four day event is a "Celebration of the best of human endeavors." Seminars and workshops in music, history, writing, theater and much more. This event will be highlighted with concert performances and guest speakers.

You can see for miles and miles off the lodge deck.

Photos courtesy Adventure Retreat

Fitness retreat offers extreme alternatives
Not just a vacation an adventure

Gail Hyer
Contributing Writer
      If you think a July vacation means a leisurely rest on an isolated island resort, then you've not been to the West Virginia Fitness & Adventure Retreat. If visions of fat-gram-menus, and poolside drinks (featuring pineapple tidbits, and little pink parasols on the side) appear when you are daydreaming about a summer getaway, then you have definitely not been to the West Virginia Fitness & Adventure Retreat.

Cranberry Mountain Lodge is one of the most unique lodging experiences in the U.S. Four miles from its nearest neighbor, it adjoins nearly one million acres of national forest. You can hike, bike or ski right out the front door to a vast trail system.
Photos courtesy Adventure Retreat

      The Retreat, held at Cranberry Mountain Lodge high atop Cranberry Mountain, is designed for the serious athlete as well as the couch potato who wants to be challenged physically while having a good time in one of the regions most spectacular natural settings. The Lodge is perched at a bracing 4000 foot elevation and is surrounded by nearly a million acres of national forest. Views off the deck exceed 40 miles and are spectacular.
      The adventure is nowhere close to roughing it in the woods eating berries and nuts. In fact, you'll be catered by Executive Chef, Daniel Jonas of Columbia, Maryland who is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY.
      Retreat sessions are four or five nights. On a typical day guests who enjoy running would get out on the trail from the lodge around 6:30 a.m. After returning, enjoy a healthy breakfast of pancakes, eggs, fresh fruit or yogurt. Then travel to the Cranberry Nature Center where you will bike the Highland Scenic Highway, West Virginia's highest paved road. A ride returning to the lodge completes the 25 mile trip. The panoramic views are breathtaking and you will want to stop along the way and take photographs.
      Return to the lodge and relax in a hot tub or take a trip to swim at Watoga State Park. An array of hors d'oeuvres of grilled quesadillas, hummus, eggplant dip, and olive tapanade with pita ships will introduce you to the four star meal to follow. Dinner can be grilled shrimp kabobs with couscous, homemade meatloaf with garlic mashed potatoes, grilled chicken fajitas with fresh guacamole, or a delicate sliced sirloin of beef, ratatouille, and au gratin potatoes. Tempting desserts of poached pears, chocolate swirl cheesecake, strawberry shortcake or almond tuille with ice cream and berries cap off the evening. Later, guests ease back and relax with board games, book discussions, lectures, or music.

You do get some down time. These guests enjoyed a picnic lunch at Stillwell Park, Marlinton after a rigorous morning of fun. The lodge also boasts hot tubs for relaxing in.
Photos courtesy Adventure Retreat

      Day two consists of an early wake up and breakfast followed by a day of bike riding the Millennium Trail for the year 2000 the Greenbrier River Trail. Lunch awaits guests at the Park in Marlinton followed by a return ride to Seebert and then a swim at Watoga State Park one of the area's most scenic natural wonders.
      The third day includes a hike to the breathtaking Falls of Hills Creek, West Virginia's second highest natural cascades. Lunch is at the Cranberry Nature Center and then a return trip back to the lodge. The afternoon venture is a mini-triathlon which features racing from the lodge to the Nature Center, biking the Scenic Highland Highway to High Rocks Trail, running out and back there, biking back to the Nature Center and running back to the lodge.

Feel like a dip? One of the options WV Fitness and Adventure Retreat offers is participation in the Richwood Triathlon, which includes a bracing half-mile swim at Summit Lake, near Richwood.
Photos courtesy Adventure Retreat

      When you arrive back at the lodge, if you're tired or sore from doing too much, there will be a massage therapist to work the kinks out, so you'll be fresh for the next day.
      The fourth day activities might include a bike ride from the lodge to Pocahontas Trail on Kennison Mountain, across Highway 39 to Dogway Road, all the way down to the Cranberry River and then ride the road along the river back to Highway 39. An option is a favorite loop for many from Lobelia Road around to the Locust Creek covered bridge, through Denmar, back to Hillsboro and wind up back at Lobelia.

Your host, Daniel Jonas, [aka Marquis de Sade!!!!!]
Photos courtesy Adventure Retreat

      An experience of biking, hiking, swimming, rafting, running and challenging one's self is offset by a leisurely dinner prepared by a chef extraordinaire and served in a distinguished lodge overlooking some of the Monongahela National Forest's most pristine and exceptional scenery.

WV Fitness and Adventure Retreat offers a unique experience in the Wilds of Pocahontas County
Photos courtesy Adventure Retreat

      Space is limited for the 2005 season. For reservations contact Daniel Jonas at 410-772-1694 or e-mail wvadventureretreat@comcast.net or visit wvadventureretreat.com

Gail Hyer is the Marketing Specialist at the Pocahontas County Convention and Visitors Bureau and contributing Mountain Times writer.

Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Museum, a well known landmark in the Little Levels area.
Photos by Drew Tanner

On 'The Good Earth' of Hillsboro
Pearl S. Buck Birthplace treasures the memories
Drew Tanner
Staff Writer
      Writers and fans recently gathered in Hillsboro to celebrate the birthday of noted author Pearl S. Buck at the place of her birth and childhood home of her mother, Caroline Stulting.
      On of June 26, the Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel laureate would have been 103 years old.
      Her family's history in Pocahontas County began just before the onset of the Civil War and as the Western world was at the brink of the industrial revolution.
      The reasons for the Stulting family's journey from Utrecht, Holland, to America are similar to those of many who emigrated from Europe in the 19th century. A combination of religious persecution and economic upheaval led the Stultings to embark on a voyage with about 800 others to the New World April 1847.
      The family landed in Baltimore and made its way to New York. There, they met Captain John J. Schermerhorn, who had taken a government warrant of more than 32,000 acres on the Cranberry and Williams Rivers. Buck's great-grandfather, Cornelius Johannes Stulting purchased 600 acres for $500.
      The family eventually moved to a 16-acre tract in Hillsboro. After a log cabin and barn were constructed, Cornelius and his son, Hermanus, began to construct the large white house modeled after their home in Utrecht. The home was completed just before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.
      Hermanus, Buck's maternal grandfather, became an elder of the Oak Grove Presbyterian Church. He was also a skilled clock maker and master of the organ. He was famous for his pre-breakfast renditions of sacred hymns on the Mason and Hamlin pump organ that still rests in its spot against the inner wall of the music room of the Stulting house.

The birth room is furnished much as it was June 26, 1892. The rocker in which Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker sat and lulled newborn Pearl to sleep sits by the window. When Pearl returned to her mother's house at the age of nine, she would drag the rocking chair onto the porch, enjoying grapes off the vine and tales by Dickens.
Photos by Drew Tanner

      Hermanus' son, Cornelius, was a teacher who eventually became superintendent of the Hillsboro schools. Buck's mother, Caroline, taught at Onoto and in Green Bank, in addition to giving private music lessons before marrying Absalom Sydenstricker in 1880 and joining him as a Presbyterian missionary to China.
      Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro June 26, 1892 while her parents were on furlough. She was only three months old before the family returned to China. Out of seven Sydenstricker children, Pearl, her elder brother Edgar and younger sister Grace were the only ones to survive to adulthood.
      Buck returned in later years to visit her grandparents' home. The first visit came when she was nine years old and her parents were on furlough again. She visited once more, at age 17, when she was a student at Randolph Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She graduated with honors and taught at the college for a semester. Pearl later moved to China, where she assisted her ill mother. She continued to teach and there she met and married her first husband, John Lossing Buck, an agricultural teacher, in 1917.
      In 1921, the couple's only natural child, Carol was born with an enzyme deficiency known as PKU, which left her mentally disabled. The Buck's later adopted another daughter, Janice, in 1925.

Downstairs, the kitchen is set for dinner, with tea-leaf china of the period and polished, bone-handled silverware gracing the table.
Photos by Drew Tanner

      A book Pearl eventually wrote about Carol, The Child that Never Grew, helped to fund research for mentally disabled children.
      Pearl had begun to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, and Atlantic Monthly. Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published by the John Day Company in 1930. John Day's publisher, Richard Walsh, would eventually become Pearl's second husband in 1935, after both went through divorces.
      In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel, The Good Earth. It became the best-selling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and was later adapted for film in 1937. Other novels and work of nonfiction quickly followed. In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature. She was the first American woman to do so, and the first woman to claim both the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes.
      By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl published more than 100 books and 200 short stories that were translated into more than 50 languages.
      Through the years, Pearl carried with her fond memories of her mother's childhood home in Hillsboro, and took an active role in raising the funds for its restoration. A limited edition run of 500 autographed copies of her book, My Mother's House, helped the West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs fund the renovation.
      Today, walking through the front door of the impressive home, a guided tour begins in the parlor. In this cozy room, a hand-crafted table of walnut, sits between the two windows bearing the Sydenstricker family Bible.

China and linen cabinet made of cherry, inlaid with tiger maple accents with the original glass in the upper doors.
Photos by Drew Tanner

      A beautiful china and linen cabinet belonging to the Sydenstricker family rests on the south wall of the parlor. The eye-catching piece is made of cherry, inlaid with tiger maple accents. The glass in the upper doors, according to guide Kathy Henry, is all original.
      Black walnut cabinets surround the fireplace on the west wall, bearing testimony to the fine craftsmanship of the men of the Stulting family. A red banner, given to Pearl's parents as they left for furlough is draped over the cabinet door, bearing golden Chinese characters that read "love mankind as yourself," letting the family know they would be welcome when they returned.
      A black-and-white photo of an eight-year-old Pearl with her parents and sister Grace sits on one of the walnut shelves along with examples of Chinese handicrafts that belonged to Pearl and her family.
      Across the hall, in the music room sits the Mason and Hamlin pump organ that Hermanus would play before breakfast. In cabinets matching those in the parlor, are copies of all of Pearl's first-edition books, another set of translated editions, and reference books, dictionaries and a Hebrew Bible that belonged to her father.
      The room also holds other examples of her family's craftsmanship, including a clock and wrought-iron fireplace tools. Among the Stulting men were cabinet and furniture makers, a blacksmiths, a silversmiths, a stone mason, a brick layer and watch and clock makers.
      At the back of the first floor is the simply furnished bedroom that belonged to Hermanus and doubled as his workshop for watches and clocks. A black mission style clock made by Hermanus sits on the mantle, next to a severe portrait of the man. The clock, which only needs to be wound every eight days, still keeps the time, according to Henry.
      The sound of ticking clocks emanating from Hermanus' room were among Pearl's memories of her childhood visit, Henry said.
      More hand-carved black walnut is found on the stairway leading to the second floor.
      Upstairs are four additional bedrooms, including Caroline's childhood room, which is also the room in which Pearl was born. The room is furnished much as it was in 1892.
      The closet doors bear a dragon, hand-carved and burned by Pearl's aunt, Mamie Stulting. The carving was finished shortly after Pearl was born, commemorating her birth during the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac.
      "To have something like this in West Virginia was very unusual," Henry said. "It was very vogue at that time. They were a very cultured family."

This antique sewing machine was discovered in the attic during the home's renovation. It was likely made in Mill Point.
Photos by Drew Tanner

      In the corner next to the closet sits a mechanical, pedal-driven sewing machine assembled by James Gibb, of Mill Point, who patented the locking chain-stitch sewing machine, Henry said. Out the bedroom door and to the right is the upstairs porch, which was one of Pearl's favorite spots in the house, according to Henry. A grape vine has wrapped itself through the porch railing.
      "She would drag the old rocking chair out here eat grapes off the grape vine and read Charles Dickens, who was her favorite childhood author," Henry added.
      Some time after Pearl's second visit, the home in Hillsboro was eventually sold off to cover debts of her cousin, Claude. The George Edgar family bought the Stulting place, and the Stultings moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1923.
      Her mother's childhood home later passed from the Edgar family to James Comstock, of Richwood, and eventually to the West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs, which created the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation. The foundation restored the home to its 1892 appearance in May 1974.
      Also on the property is the Sydenstricker House, birthplace of Pearl's father, Absalom. The house, originally in Greenbrier County, was dismantled, transported 40 miles, and reconstructed on the site for use as a cultural center, while the log section is maintained as a Sydenstricker museum.
      Guided tours of the Pearl S. Buck birthplace are available Monday through Saturday between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. and last approximately 45 minutes. A gift shop featuring Pearl's books, including autographed editions and first day covers of the stamp commemorating the author, is open during tour hours.
      The historic home is located about 10 miles south of Marlinton on U.S. Route 219.
      For more information on visiting the site, call 304-653-4430 or visit online at www.pearlsbuckbirthplace.com

The Underground Railroad Quilt Sampler contains 30 blocks with 15 different designs, each representing a different code quilt
Photos by Gail Hyer

Local quilters ride historic rails to recreate
Gail Hyer
Contributing Writer
      The Cranberry Piecemakers Quilt Guild took on a formidable project in January. They set out to make a quilt not just any quilt but a quilt depicting the secret codes of the Underground Railroad during the American Civil War.
      Quilting is an art no less than painting or pottery.
      Helene Krueger, of Slaty Fork, a Guild member, recently explained, "The search for the fabric was so exciting. We sat on the floor for hours trying to mix and match the colors and designs." Part of the uniqueness of this quilt is that is made of reproduction fabric that means the color and designs of the cloth are similar to the type used back during the American Civil War period.
      Only a few of the original quilts from the American Civil War have survived. Helene explained that fabric used for making quilts back then was very old to begin with, and not in the best of condition. Fabric from old mattresses was used as well as old clothes that had been worn for a long time. Dye for coloring the yarn was usually made from plant leaves, flowers, berries or barks and was susceptible to fading and washing out rapidly.

Notice detail from the Drunkard's Path block.
Photos by Gail Hyer

      The sampler has 30 blocks with 15 different designs. Each of the designs represents a different quilt. Some of the blocks have as many as 52 individual pieces of cloth combined to form the design. Each Guild member contributed to the quilt by making at least one block.
      When all the blocks were completed Guild members Linda Adams, of Clover Lick, and Cheryl Taylor Dean, of Marlinton, set out to join the 30 individual blocks with sashing.
      "Putting the blocks together to form the samplers can be quite difficult," said Adams who has been quilting for more than six years. "You have to make sure it flows right. One block can throw the entire scheme off. You don't want to have a quilt where your eye is drawn to only one block but rather your eye catches the whole essence of the quilt."
      Secret messages in the form of quilt patterns aided slaves escaping the bonds of captivity in the southern states before and during the American Civil War. Slaves could not read or write and it was illegal to teach a slave to do so. Codes, therefore, were part of the slaves' existence and their route to freedom, which eventually became known as the Underground Railroad. Some forms of dance, spirituals, code words and phrases, and memorized symbols all allowed the slaves to communicate with each other on a level their white owners could not interpret.
      Most quilt patterns had their roots in African traditions the slaves brought with them to North America when they were captured and forced to leave their homeland. The Africans' method of recording their history and stories was by committing it to memory and passing it on orally to following generations. Quilt patterns were passed down the same way. Quilts slung over a fence or windowsill, seemingly to air, passed on the necessary information to knowing slaves.

Notice detail from the North Star block.
Photos by Gail Hyer

      In the book Hidden in Plain View by Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobrad, PhD, Tobin explains that she met an African American quilter from South Carolina. The woman told her that quilts were used to communicate information about the Underground Railroad. She said she got the story from her mother who in turn got the story from her mother. From one generation to the other, this was said to be the code:
      "The Monkey Wrench turns the Wagon Wheel toward Canada. With help from Jesus, the Carpenter, follow the Bears' Trail through the woods. Fill your baskets with enough food and supplies to get you to the Crossroads. Once you get to the Crossroads, dig a Log Cabin in the ground. Shoofly told us to dress up in cotton and satin Bow Ties. Follow the Flying Geese and Birds in the Air; stay on the Drunkard's Path. Take the Sailboat across the Great Lakes to the North Star above Canada."
      Monkey Wrench Quilt was the first quilt to be displayed as a signal for any slaves who planned escape. A monkey wrench quilt symbolized time to collect tools they would need on their journey north to freedom, upon the death of well known abolitionist Frederick Douglas, a monkey wrench quilt was found in his Cedar Hill, Washington DC home.
      The Wagon Wheel was the second quit to be displayed on the fence. The quilt was a message to pack provisions for the journey as if they were packing a wagon. The Carpenter's Wheel quilt was a secondary code pattern. To a slave, the master carpenter in their lives was Jesus. Slaves singing in the fields of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" made the plantation owners think the slaves were singing about going home to Jesus when in fact they were singing about escaping.
      The Bear's Paw was the third quilt used to help prepare slaves for their journey to freedom. Runaways were directed to follow the path of the bear through the mountains. Most escapes took place in the spring when it would have been easy to follow the bear path.

In the ditch quilting, above, demonstrates quilting very close to the seamlines between two fabrics.
Photos by Gail Hyer

      The Basket block is a symbol of the provisions needed to go north. Abolitionists would often give the runaways baskets with supplies in them. Crossroads Quilt was the fourth quilt with symbolic meaning revealed to the slaves planning to escape. Once fugitives made it safely through the Appalachian Mountain, they were to travel to the "crossroads" or a city where they would find protection and refuge.
      The Log Cabin block is the fifth quilt in the secret code. The usual center color of the block was red, representing the hearth or fire of the cabin.
      The Shoofly represents an actual person who might have helped escaping slaves. His job was to hide the slave and frequently he did so in graveyards on the edge of town.
      Bow Tie Quilt was number seven. Free Blacks would often meet them in a safe place as a church and give them fresh clothing. In "satin bow ties" runaways would not stand out among the city folks.
      Flying Geese is the eighth quilt in the Williams family code. With the appearance of this quilt, slaves learned they were to take their direction, timing, behavior from migrating geese. Birds in the Air Quilt is symbolic of flight or migration. During the Underground Railroad of the 1840s and 1850s, a clever quilter could indicate a direction for fugitives to travel through the choice of fabric and placement of blocks.

Helene Krueger (left) and Linda Adams (right) with the Underground Railroad Quilt Sampler
Photos by Gail Hyer

      Drunkard's Path is the ninth quilt and slaves were told to go in staggering patterns and even double back occasionally on their tracks to confuse the slave catchers pursing them.
      The North Star Quilt is the last quilt in the secret code passed through history. The North Star was the guiding light leading slaves to Canada and freedom. The North Star was also important to navigation, especially to boat owners who took the slaves from Cleveland or Detroit to Canada.
      "The history of these quilt patterns is very moving," said Kruger. "It helps us appreciate what people would do to attain their freedom."
      The queen size quilt will be on display at the Little Levels Heritage Fair, Pioneer Days, and Autumn Harvest Festival. People can purchase tickets for the chance to win this extraordinary work of cooperative art at each of these events or by calling any Guild member listed here: Linda Adams, Carroll Barlow, Charlene Beverage, Julia Bird, Dawn Jo Hedrick, Kathy Henry, Helene Krueger, Evelyn Lewis, Norma Mikesell, Leeta Russell, Vinecia Stanley, Cheryl Taylor Dean, Betty Wall or Cathy Williams.

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Fitness retreat offers extreme alternatives Not just a vacation an adventure

On 'The Good Earth' of Hillsboro Pearl S. Buck Birthplace treasures the memories

Local quilters ride historic rails to recreate

Fitness retreat offers extreme alternatives
Not just a vacation an adventure

On 'The Good Earth' of Hillsboro
Pearl S. Buck Birthplace treasures the memories