itage
Museum you know
there isn’t another museum
like it south of
San Antonio.
If you haven’t
you’re in for a
rare glimpse
and cotton prints of all
kinds of women, this
quilt has a lot of movement in it and a lot of
zing.
The feminine
themes include a diversity of ethnic groups, pin- ups, angels, and
mermaids.
The second place quilt, Peace, Love, & Rock
'n Roll by Karen Watts of Mayhill, NM, is a
nod to songs of the 1960s and early 1970s; it
features an image of her husband playing his
guitar. Timna Tarr of South Hadley, MA, the
third place winner, used appliquéd circles
and color to move the viewer’s eye around
her quilt; it is titled Upstairs Downstairs.
Blizzard by Ann Feitelson of Montague, MA
includes black and white stripes, checks and
plaids to express snowiness for the fourth
place win. The fifth place winner was Sing
Praise by Ann Horton of Redwood Valley,
CA; her design quilt explores the beauty of
the natural world through the technique of
machine embroidery.
Finalist quilts featured in the exhibit make a
wide array of entries from across the United
States. A book featuring full-color photos of
the eighteen finalists and their award winning quilts, biographical information about
each quilter in addition to tips, techniques
and patterns has been published by the
American Quilter’s Society and is available
for purchase during the exhibit.
If you’ve visited the Harlingen Arts & Her-
into the past. The
museum is comprised of four historic
buildings.
The Lon C. Hill
Home was the first
home to be built in
Harlingen. Lon C.
Hill was a “larger
than life” visionary historical pioneer. A man of many skills;
he was a lawyer, developer, builder of structures/canals, owned and operated a store,
hotel, sugar mill and brick kiln. He was also
a Statesman. His home began construction
in 1904. Mr. Hill raised eight children af-
ter the deaths of his wife Eustacia and their
ninth child George, of typhoid fever, in 1904.
The family endured bandit raids and hosted
dignitaries from across the United States. Period furniture, old photos, cooking utensils
and clothing, some actually worn by the Hill
family, add authenticity to those long ago
days.
Harlingen celebrated its centennial on April
15, 2010. It had been named “Rattlesnake
Junction” and “6-Shooter Junction”, but Lon
C. Hill renamed it “Harlingen” in honor of
his friend and railroad builder Uriah Lott,
whose ancestral home was in Harlingen,
Holland. Agriculture made the “Magic Valley” prosperous, but without the irrigation,
railroads, and the foresight of Hill, it could
not have developed.
The second historical building in the museum complex is the Harlingen Hospital. In
1923 Mrs. Ida Gilbert and M