Quilters put history on cutting edge

Tourism center’s new creation spotlights Underground Railroad By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Blair Mahoney, Brandywine Circle Quilters, Brandywine Valley Tourism Information Center, Chester County Conference and Visitors Bureau, longwood gardens, Longwood Progressive Meeting, underground railroad Commissioned a year ago to create a quilt with an Underground Railroad theme,...

Longwood volunteers create piece de resistance

Series of quilts chronicle garden’s beauty – from flowers to felines By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times A detail from the three-paneled, light-themed quilt shows the garden’s bird of paradise flowers. The goal was grand: Capture the colors of Longwood Gardens in a quilt. First suggested in 1996, the project failed to leave the drawing board more than once. But that was before...