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A quilt from Butler County History Center is on display as part of a special celebratory exhibition at The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
The Historical Society and the Women of Color Quilters Network have partnered with The Group for Cultural Documentation to present “Quilts for Obama: An Exhibit Celebrating the Inauguration of our 44th President,” which opened Sunday.
The Butler County History Center got involved after receiving a call from Nancy Hornbacker, a quilter from Sedgwick County.
“She had called because she was contacted by a Mr. Roland Freeman and he lives in Washington, D.C.,” said Lisa Cooley, curator of education at the Butler History Center.
He is the head of the Group for Cultural Documentation, Inc.
“He wanted to put together a quilt exhibit in honor of Barack Obama and his inauguration,” she said.
They were looking for one of three types of quilts. Either a quilt that was a family heirloom of Obama’s or one that belonged to a friend of the family. While the museum did not have either of these, they did have a Butler County quilt to send.
“We looked through our quilts,” Cooley said. “We wanted to find one that was appropriate. We chose a quilt that represented the petroleum industry in which three generations of President-Elect Barack Obama’s family worked and the time period of the 1920s and 1930s when the family lived in Butler County.”
They found such a quilt that had been made by Laura Lardin White, a member of the Oil Hill Methodist Church Quilting Circle. The quilt was made in the 1930s and called “Grandmother’s Flower Garden.” Oil Hill, Kan., was a company-owned town in the heart of the El Dorado Oil Field from 1916 to 1957.
They were looking for a quilt from the 1920s or 1930s because Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Dunham, graduated from El Dorado High School in 1936 and had lived here as a child.
The quilts will remain on display through Jan. 31.
“It is an honor to have been contacted by Mr. Freeman for participation in this historic exhibition,” Cooley said.
To learn more about the quilt, visit www.kansasoilmuseum.org. For more information on the exhibit, visit www.historydc.org or www.tgcd.org, or by calling 202-882-7764.
A quilt from Butler County History Center is on display as part of a special celebratory exhibition at The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
The Historical Society and the Women of Color Quilters Network have partnered with The Group for Cultural Documentation to present “Quilts for Obama: An Exhibit Celebrating the Inauguration of our 44th President,” which opened Sunday.
The Butler County History Center got involved after receiving a call from Nancy Hornbacker, a quilter from Sedgwick County.
“She had called because she was contacted by a Mr. Roland Freeman and he lives in Washington, D.C.,” said Lisa Cooley, curator of education at the Butler History Center.
He is the head of the Group for Cultural Documentation, Inc.
“He wanted to put together a quilt exhibit in honor of Barack Obama and his inauguration,” she said.
They were looking for one of three types of quilts. Either a quilt that was a family heirloom of Obama’s or one that belonged to a friend of the family. While the museum did not have either of these, they did have a Butler County quilt to send.
“We looked through our quilts,” Cooley said. “We wanted to find one that was appropriate. We chose a quilt that represented the petroleum industry in which three generations of President-Elect Barack Obama’s family worked and the time period of the 1920s and 1930s when the family lived in Butler County.”
They found such a quilt that had been made by Laura Lardin White, a member of the Oil Hill Methodist Church Quilting Circle. The quilt was made in the 1930s and called “Grandmother’s Flower Garden.” Oil Hill, Kan., was a company-owned town in the heart of the El Dorado Oil Field from 1916 to 1957.
They were looking for a quilt from the 1920s or 1930s because Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Dunham, graduated from El Dorado High School in 1936 and had lived here as a child.
The quilts will remain on display through Jan. 31.
“It is an honor to have been contacted by Mr. Freeman for participation in this historic exhibition,” Cooley said.
To learn more about the quilt, visit www.kansasoilmuseum.org. For more information on the exhibit, visit www.historydc.org or www.tgcd.org, or by calling 202-882-7764.
