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Front Matter, Acknowledgements, Contents - On the Cutting Edge, Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions: Symposium Papers

1994
Union County Historical Society
Union County, Pennsylvania, United States
The Union County Historical Society's Oral Traditions Project organized a symposium in June 1993 where papers were presented in conjunction with a quilt exhibit at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was published in On the Cutting Edge, Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions: Symposium Papers, 1994.
Acknowledgments
On the Cutting Edge/Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions is the fourth in a series of textile symposia volumes and the 15th book to appear in the Oral Traditions series on material culture since Made of Mud/Stoneware Potteries of Central Pennsylvania 1834-1911 was printed in 1977.

The Bicentennial Celebration in the United States set in motion plans for parades, re-enactments, reprints of 19-century local histories as well as projects involving original research. While many of these activities were short-lived, others have continued to exist and sometimes thrive. The Oral Traditions Project is one of the survivors.

We hope that our enthusiasm for the people and the objects they have crafted, has been passed on through our work. We welcome you to join us at next symposia at Franklin & Marshall in June 1996, "Painted for a Purpose: the Ordinary and the Extraordinary." There, more than at any other time, one can grasp the complexities of this world we have sought to capture.

We wish to thank the following people for making the 1993 symposium at Franklin & Marshall College as wonderful as it was: the Special Events staff headed by Marilyn Davidson and her assistant, Gloria Schleicher; the Curator of Collections and head of the Rothman Gallery, Carol Faill; the Oral Traditions staff of Martha Root and Nancy Ruhl, and the Union County Historical Society's administrative assistant, Rita Barton.

Special thanks should also be extended to the hosts at the Historical Society of Berks County and Goschenhoppen Historians' quilt shows: Allison DuPont and Abe and Nancy Roan respectively, and the Lancaster Historical Society for their hosting the opening reception, presentation, and exhibition - some of which is featured on the book's cover and inside cover. Also, thanks to the Mainline Quilters for their financial gift which helped to underwrite the mailings to past and potential symposium registrants as well as to pay for cover photography costs. A special thank you is extended to the audience which included representatives from 25 different quilt documentation projects - thanks to the active enthusiasm of Shelly Zegart, and to the speakers and panelists: Julie Powell, Carol Failll, Celia Oliver, Nancy Gibson Tuckhorn, Richard and Rosemary Machmer, Vernon Gunnion, Alan G. Keyser, Gloria Seaman Allen, Rita Erickson, Barbara Schaffer, Merikay Waldvogel, Pat Nickols, Dorothy Zopf, Eve Wheatcraft Granick, and Nancy Roan.
Jeannette Lasansky
May 1994

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