CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS’ QUILTS

Presenter: Pamela Weeks

Quilts made for use by soldiers during the Civil War are very rare-only twenty are known to exist, and Pam Weeks has studied most of them in person. This illustrated lecture outlines the origins of the U. S. Sanitary Commission at the beginning of the Civil War and examines the roles women played on the home front, and as nurses. The stories of fourteen actual Civil War soldiers’ quilts will be highlighted in this program.

A NH Humanities to Go presentation

This event is a partnership with Center Meeting House of Newbury and the Newbury Public Library.