Historians are divided on the question of whether quilts were used to signal runaway slaves during the Underground Railroad era. But the concept is intriguing. The pattern contained in a quilt hung on ...

Ann Bakke's class is replicating quilts having patterns from the Underground Railroad era. The quilt patterns were used to provide different signals to runaway slaves. "The art of quilt making is ...

Ethel Hayden grew up in West Leechburg seated around a quilting frame with her siblings. They stitched together pieces of cloth, practicing the fabric craft passed down from her mother and grandmother ...