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Quilt Show the Pioneer Village Museum. The group has raised more than $ 100,000 for the Historical Society since their first fundraiser in 1969.
Members of the Pioneer Women meet weekly to make crafts, including quilts, to sell in the History Center gift shop.
On weekends members of the group dress up in period clothing and show visitors what it was like to live in pioneer days. It is a treat to see the village’ s displays and the spinning and weaving demonstrations. Other crafts like blacksmithing can be seen there.
The beautiful new History Center officially opened its doors this spring. Members of the Historical Society and the Pioneer Women can now share with others the result of years of dedicated effort.
The Pioneer Village Museum and the Brown County History Center are located just north of the courthouse in downtown Nashville. The hours are 1 to 4 Tuesday – Saturday and the donation is $ 2. For more information you can call( 812) 988-2899.
— Cindy Steele •
The Brown County Historical Society Pioneer Women’ s Quilt Show is back this year and resides in a new home, the Brown County History Center. When the Society sold the building on State Road 135 to help fund the new center’ s construction, organizers had to borrow space at other locations. The event was not held last year due to some scheduling conflicts.
The new center provides the perfect venue for this long time tradition. This year’ s event is sure to receive more traffic with the downtown location and peak autumn timing. The show will be held October 9, 10 and 11 with Friday and Saturday hours of 10 to 5 and Sunday hours 10 to 3. There will be spinning and weaving demonstrations and musical performances. Over 100 quilts will be on display, some for sale. A lunch café of sandwiches, salads, and homemade pies is provided by the Pioneer Women. A quilt drawing will be held at 3:00 Sunday.
It is impressive to see that many quilts in one place at one time— colorful patchwork craftsmanship representing, no doubt, thousands of hours of effort.
The Pioneer Women put countless volunteer hours into making the event happen and into keeping up
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