Quilt With Us
This Saturday, Feb 23, at 10 am in the Lucas Fire Station, the Chariton and Lucas quilt guilds are offering a FREE program to everyone that is interested in feed sacks and/or Iowa history!! Michael Zahs will be presenting "Iowa History in a Cloth Bag". This porgrams explains how cloth bags and the revolutionary idea of marketing to women helped Iowans survive the Great Depression and the shortages of World War II. Flour sacks, feed sacks and seed sacks will tell the story from relief work by Herbert Hoover to clothes and quilts in the 1950’s. Michael has given programs on state and local topics for over 35 years. He is very involved in historic preservation, log buildings, cemetery work, and state and local Iowa history.
Of course, I googled Michael Zahs and he was picked teacher of the year a few times and quite a historian on 200 years of Iowa history.
I have studied some about the feed sack history from Cindy Brick and classes taken at Paducah, Kentucky. But never seem to get enough of more facts. History is always finding new discoveries and gives us so much more to learn. My roots run deep into Iowa history and is now and always will be one of my favorite subjects.
So sounds like road trip for me.
Below is a picture I found on my search of Michael Zahs.
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2 comments:
Wish I was closer; I'd be going with you Saturday.
That was a great presentation. I'm so glad you invited me along. I learned a lot!
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