Special Visitors to our Museum

Curator Phyllis Pellman Good talks with Phoebe Bailey about the beautiful quilt in the exhibit which was made before the Civil War on a Virginia plantation. Bailey is the director of "Living the Experience," a music-and-drama-and-food experience, highlighting the Underground Railroad in Lancaster County.

Dixie O. Rettig brought a group from the Smithsonian for a guided tour of our current exhibit. The Underground Railroad Quilt received a great deal of attention from the group.

Each year the editors from the various quilt magazines at Chitra Publications make a special visit to our museum.

Who would have guessed that the clothing of our visitors would have upstaged the quilts in our exhibit? A group of Masai from East Africa came to see both the Amish quilts and the African American quilts in our exhibit. They even sang for us!

On occasion, The People's Place Quilt Museum sponsors public programs. At this event, poet Julia Kasdorf (right) read her poetry to the audience for part of an evening focusing on the Big Valley Amish, while curator Phyllis Pellman Good (left) spoke about the quilting traditions.