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Quilt Crawl draws visitors to museum B Y N I CO L E J O H N S O N ’13
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This past January and February, museums across Central Texas opened their doors for the Great Bell County Quilt Crawl. The event was a countywide exhibit of historical quilts held at seven different locations, including the UMHB Musick Alumni Center and Museum at the Parker House. The UMHB museum featured more than 40 quilts, bedspreads, rugs, handkerchiefs, pillows, and crocheted collars. Each display told a story connected to the university. Two quilts were emphasized as the museum’s centerpieces. One is a keepsake collage of shirts entitled “UMHB T-shirt Quilt” while the other is a family heirloom entitled “9-Patch Touching Stars.” Both are a representation of UMHB’s past and present and are owned by grandmother/ granddaughter duo, Nelda East Sanders ’54 and Kristal Varnell ’07. The first was made in 2011 by Varnell. It is a patchwork of T-shirts she acquired during her years in college. The second quilt, “9-Patch Touching Stars,” was made in 1845 by Mary Sloan. It was a wedding gift for her son, then handed through the generations while being preserved with love and care. More than 150 years later, it was given to Varnell’s grandmother Nelda Sanders. Sanders explained the quilt is connected to UMHB because the university was officially chartered the same year the quilt was made. Museum Curator Betty Sue Beebe said the exhibit has drawn people from across the state to UMHB. “We’ve had groups drive in from Marble Falls, and two ladies from Evant came for the third time last Saturday. These are all people who would not normally visit the museum, but they are interested in this exhibit. The level of interest has really surprised me. It has been a great tool for sharing the history of UMHB with the public,” Beebe said.
Townsend Memorial Library Director of Learning Resources Denise Karimkhani recently completed an index to a local history book, Bell County Revisited: an Informal Pictorial History of Bell County, written by Martha Bowmer and published by the Temple Jaycees in 1976. She had previously prepared indexes for After Seventy-Five Years (published in 1920 to celebrate Baylor Female College’s Diamond Jubilee), The Parker Years (a biography of former UMHB president Bobby Parker), and a thesis entitled Mary Hardin-Baylor College, 18451937. “I prepare these indexes as a service to the university and to the local community,” Karimkhani said. “At the library, we receive numerous requests from alumni who want a photograph or information on a relative who attended the college. The indexes have proven very useful as a finding aid.” The indexes are available in the library’s special collections for use by patrons. The Bell County Revisited index is also available to purchase for $10. For more information, contact Karimkhani at 254-295-4636 or dkarimkhani@umhb.edu
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