Arts & Entertainment
Photo Gallery: Quilts and the Civil War
Yorkville Patch takes a look at some of the quilts on display at the library as part of a week-long show that features several community presentations.
The "Quilts and the Civil War" show at the includes quilts made by women throughout the area using Civil War-era patterns and reproduction fabric designs.
The , sponsored by the Friends of the Yorkville Public Library and the Ladies of the Civil War Quilt Group, also features a replication of a wooden box a slave boy used to mail himself to freedom (according to a children's book).
Tuesday marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. The show is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Saturday.
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Some other events scheduled during the show are:
• On Wednesday, actors portraying Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln will speak at 7 p.m. about the events that lead to the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter. Tickets, which can be picked up at the Yorkville Public Library at no charge, are required.
• Dick Popp, a member of the Friends of the Yorkville Public Library, will provide lessons on how to make a Fort Sumter diorama, and will display his own such diorama, at 6 p.m. Thursday.
• On Saturday, the last day of the event, Natasha Lehrer, owner of Ester's Place fiber arts studio in Big Rock, Ill., will hold a weaving and spinning demonstration from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
