The World's Fair Quilt by Jennifer Chiaver ini
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\n\n"As fall paints the Pennsylvania countryside in flaming colors\, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson is contemplating the future of her beloved Elm Creek Quilts. The Elm Cree k Quilt Camp remains the most popular quilter's retreat in the country\, b ut unexpected financial difficulties have beset them and the Bergstrom fam ily's stately nineteenth-century manor. Now in her eighth decade\, Sylvia is determined to maintain her family's legacy\, but she needs new resource s--financial and emotional. Summer Sullivan--a founding Elm Creek Quilter- -arrives to discuss an antique quilt that she wants to display at the Wate rford Historical Society's quilt exhibit. When Sylvia and her sister Claud ia were teenagers\, they had entered a quilt in the Sears National Quilt C ontest for the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition\, also known as the Chi cago World's Fair. The Bergstrom sisters' quilt would be perfect for the H istorical Society's exhibit\, Summer explains. Sylvia is reluctant to lend out the quilt\, which has been stored in the attic for decades\, nearly f orgotten. In keeping with the contest's 'Century of Progress' theme\, the girls illustrated progress of values--scenes of the Emancipation Proclamat ion\, woman's suffrage\, and labor unions. But although it won ribbons\, t he quilt also drove a wedge between the sisters. As Sylvia reluctantly ret races her quilt's story for Summer\, she makes an unexpected discovery--on e that restores some of her faith in this unique work of art\, and helps s hine some light on a way forward for the Elm Creek Quilts community"--Prov ided by publisher.
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