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MARCH 30, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVIII • NO 14
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Quilting Days Return To Fairmount BY ANN MEAD ASH
Because Carol Swailes, Fairmount public relations coordinator, is a quilter herself, she is well qualified to give a tour of the quilts-in-progress that women worked busily to complete on Feb. 16 - the third of the Quilting Days held in the Farm Crest Community Room at Fairmount this year. In 2021, Quilting Days was moved to New Covenant Mennonite Fellowship, a little less than 2 miles from Fairmount, due to COVID-19 restrictions. No matter where Quilting Days is held, the event always features a number of quilts - nearly 10 this year - in a variety of colors and patterns, including Starburst, Log Cabin, and Twister. Quilts decorated with applique or with embroidery or cross-stitch were also plentiful. Colors ranged from a variety of pinks, cranberries, and purples to blue and white and one done in black, gold, and cream. Most of the quilts were queen and king sizes, but a few doubles and twins were also completed. Members of the Christian artists group Gather In will hold a Good Friday exhibit at Green Dragon Farmers Market.
See Fairmount pg 3
Gather In To Hold Show At Green Dragon BY ANN MEAD ASH
rtist David Moore has been studying with the Lancaster Mennonite Conference STEP (Study and Training for Effective Pastoral ministry) Program for nearly three years. “The final project is a missional outreach,” explained Moore, who noted that he struggled to come up with an original missional experience. “A couple months ago, the Lord said, ‘Why not do an art show at Green Dragon?’” Moore decided to hold
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the show on Good Friday. “The idea is to turn people’s thoughts to Christ with artwork,” he noted. On Friday, April 15, Gather In, a group of Christian artists of which Moore is a member, will hold an exhibition at Green Dragon Farmers Market, 955 N. State St., Ephrata, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Among the artists who take part will be woodworkers, watercolorists, carvers, metalworkers, painters, abstract artists, and cartoonists. Other artists in the group are considering what they will bring.
Gary Greene is a landscape painter who paints and teaches watercolor. He and his wife, Pat, are both Gather In members. Rather than bringing his own work, Gary described a page from a newspaper that he clipped long ago and had laminated to display. “(It’s of) Jesus as a little boy with Joseph working at his carpenter bench,” Gary explained. “Jesus is crawling around on the floor and picks up a spike (like the one that will later secure him to the cross) to play with. It blew me away,” said Gary, who added that
Pat will give away rawhide bracelets that tell the salvation story with different colored beads. Gather In member and abstract artist Isabell Clark is organizing a display at Stillmeadow Church of the Nazarene in York. “I have gathered other artists in our church, and we are doing pieces that correspond with our Lenten focus,” said Clark, who noted that the group has created a gallery space within the sanctuary for visitors to engage with the art. She plans to bring a piece from that display to the Green Dragon exhibit. See Gather In pg 5
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