Taylor McClure, Special to the Brome County News – The Brome County News was recently invited to experience the antique quilts exhibition that is currently being held at the Missisquoi Museum located in Stanbridge East. The exhibition, titled Piecing the Story Together, provides visitors the opportunity to view around a dozen antique quilts and learn the unique stories and histories that they represent. Mona Beaulac, Guy Paquin and Heather Darch of the museum provided us some insight into what the exhibition is all about. Heather, who was in charge of setting up the exhibition, had the idea of doing an antique quilting exhibition for a while but it took several years of planning and research. “I thought it would be fun to do something different.” The museum had photographs and names of women in their archives that tied in with their quilt collection and this is how the project first got off the ground. “I had to find the names of the women in our archives and match the quilts with the photographs we had of these women.” It was a very long process but Heather’s vision came to life. See full story in the June 18 edition of the Brome County News.
