After watching the dire news, night after night, about how the U.S. economy is tanking, I woke up this morning, determined to do something to make a difference. As a result, I have not only marked down the price of our e-book about a most inspiring but little known figure in the quilt world of the 1930s, but we are also offering FREE SHIPPING to U.S. addresses.

Why? You would have to know more about Mrs. Ellen Emeline Hardy Webster to fully understand the answer to that question. She brought light to so many lives through her quilt lectures, bird talks, women’s club activities, and by being, overall, a decent and hopeful woman who loved literature, people, and life itself. Her life’s emphasis was on Education, that is, sharing what she knew with as many other people as she could, sometimes, for very little or no pay. She and I have a LOT in common. I really identified with her life and some of the directions it took her, and what was most valuable to her.

So, at tremendous savings to the potential buyer, our website is making a special, if not limited-time offer for this CD. For details, and to pay with a Paypal button, please see our home page by clicking on the link listed under our names.

Mrs. Webster lived through the Great Depression and she knew what it was to “make do” and to “go without.” She took in (family) boarders, and sometimes provided “paid” lectures that did not even cover the gas money it took to get to the lecture hall.

Like Mrs. Webster, I have shared tons of “free” information. I have done this on my website and in the (free) lectures I have provided. This e-book is truly a labor of love, and deserves to be read. It is the product of eight long months of intense research, 12-14 hrs. per day including field trips; networking; interlibrary loan requests; purchases of research materials, via the Internet and elsewhere; and input from individual historians, quilt historians, and family members, as well as a number of museums.

Don’t let the opportunity get away to familiarize yourself with this great 1930s quilt historian and her work. Her name was Ellen Emeline Hardy Webster (1867-1950). Now you can learn all about her life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, her family, her work, her education, her affiliations, her quilt “charts,” and life in New Hampshire, during her lifetime. She was particularly instrumental in the spread of information about Luminous Moss in NH, and the book covers that interest, as well.

Thanks for listening!

Patricia and James Cummings

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