LE ROY — In October 1834, 10-year-old Jane Boyer of Le Roy finished her cross stitch sampler. Now, 190 years later, her work will be shown at a cross stitch retreat. It’s set for Oct. 19 at St. Mark’s ...
Two sisters' homework assignments just came home to St. Johnsbury. In the 1830s, Mary and Mehitable Bennett stitched delicate ...
Long before there was ancestry.com, there were samplers. “Genealogical samplers recording births, marriages and deaths became popular around 1790,” explains a placard accompanying the new exhibition ...
By Isabell Macrina Even with temperatures dropping below double digits, people drove out to Sherborn Library on Sunday to ...
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