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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LX • NO 39
Fighting hunger one step at a time BY ANN MEAD ASH
“We raised more money (in 2023) than in 2022,” said a grinning Krisana Poontajak, pastor of Cedar Grove Presbyterian Church, which participates in
Participants in the Garden Spot Village Quilt Club’s Quilt Fest include (from left) Sally Mittelstadt, E.J. Rittersbach, Shirley Wenger, and Gloria Mast.
A quilt lover’s paradise
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ally Mittelstadt, a member of the Garden Spot Village (GSV) Quilt Club and an organizer of the first Quilt Fest, is excited to invite quilt lovers from around the area to GSV. “It’s free and open to the public,” said Mittelstadt. “Come for the day,” she encouraged. Quilt Fest will be held on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at GSV, 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland. A variety of quilts will be on display, with some available for purchase. The display will include the Victor
Weaver Quilt on loan from the New Holland Area Historical Society and eight antique quilts made prior to 1900. There will also be a quilting demonstration, which will include quilt piecing, hand quilting, and comforter knotting, in the Village Park. Two presentations by local art historian Gloria Mast will be given in the chapel, and GSV’s stores and eateries will be open. Grab-and-go meals will be offered to eat on the porch, and plenty of on-site parking will be available for visitors. Mast’s first presentation will be given at 10 a.m., and it will feature the Esprit Quilts collected
by Doug Tompkins, founder of North Face Inc. The collection, now housed at LancasterHistory, is comprised of 82 quilts made by Lancaster County Amish women between 1890 and 1950. Mast noted the quilts were made for display and “not to be cuddled in.” Mast’s 1 p.m. presentation will focus on Susie Riehl, a local Amish watercolorist known for her paintings of quilts. To coincide with Mast’s presentations, GSV resident Shirley Wenger, a photographer who worked with Riehl to create and sell her paintings, will bring her private quilt collection to be
See CROP Walk pg 10
Organizers and recruiters for the 47th annual New Holland Area CROP Walk are preparing for the upcoming event.
An uncommon presentation NHAHS to host Lydia Hamilton Smith biographer BY ANN MEAD ASH
Mark Kelley, an author and former broadcast journalist and teacher, remembers what inspired him to undertake his latest project - a biography of Lydia Hamilton Smith. “ We watched Steven Spielberg ’s movie about Abraham Lincoln,” recalled Kelley, who recounted how the second half of the movie delved into the life of Lancastrian Thaddeus Stevens and his
See Quilt Fest pg 10
work to pass the 13th Amendment. Kelley was intrigued by the suggestion that the connection between Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith, who lived in Stevens’ home as a housekeeper, may have been more than it seemed. Kelley will discuss his book “An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith” in the chapel at Garden Spot Village, 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, See NHAHS pg 2
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the New Holland Area CROP Walk. Indeed, the 2023 effort topped 2022 numbers by more than $400. Poontajak noted that although fewer churches participated in 2023, more walkers took part.