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Log Cabin Quilt, 1990, by Polly Raymond of Gee's Bend, AL, graces the Parlor Bedroom's mahogany four-poster bed as part of the Community Threads quilting exhibition at Hill-Stead Museum, on view through March 28, 2010. Photo by Ben Jordan.

Hill-Stead Museum Extends Gee’s Bend Quilt Exhibition Through March 28, 2010

Released: March 4, 2010

Hill-Stead Museum is pleased to announce that its special exhibition of Gee’s Bend and other historic and contemporary quilts, the museum’s first loan exhibition, has been extended a full month, through March 28. The exhibition is a component of Hartford’s Community Health Services’ Community Threads project, a city-wide celebration of arts, community, and the history and culture of quilting. Throughout the 20th century, women in the small rural village of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, made quilts as labors of love and necessity, eventually attaining economic freedom through the...