Ostensibly referencing Columbus’ voyages, the Guild’s page is really a lavishly skilled retelling of 500 years of embroidery.

Melanie Pratt’s embroidery tour-de-force for the Society uses images of artifacts in the Society’s collection to hint at Ohio’s rich and varied history.

Tucked among  samplers of historical quilt patterns made by members of the Gahanna Historical Society are images of Gahanna’s earliest buildings and botanical reminders of its

famous annual herb festival.

Wyrelene Mays’ page is a history in fabric--a quilt pattern that retells the life of

Dr. Martin Luther King, from his humble beginnings, to his incarceration, to his ministry and the Dream and, in the end, to his assassination.

Dedicated to Renaissance-era

re-enactment, the Association chose for its page tracing the 17th-century English voyages

of settlement.

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