By Harriet Muhrlein

You are seeing a photo of a quilt of scenes of Kingston that is rarely seen. It hangs under a protective covering in the main meeting room next to the Library in the Kingston Community Center. Currently that room is used very rarely and has a giant padlock on the door.

The Arts and Crafts Guild members made the quilt in about 1985. Nine of the participants making blocks were Laura Zetterberg, Joyce Merriam, Melody Minder, Ann Holmstrand, Kay Becker, Alyce Mekalesen, Mary Ann Case, Virginia Warner, and Madeline Jutte. Other guild members working on the quilt have not been identified.

Raffle tickets were sold for the quilt and a woman from Seattle won. The Guild decided that they really wanted to keep the quilt in Kingston. They paid $250 to the winner and had it returned home.

The Arts and Crafts Guild was a very active organization. They held shows on the Fourth of July in the Community Center for about 10 years displaying the varied items of their labors and of others in the community.

The Historical Society truly hopes that this lovely quilt will find a home in the new community center library complex when it is built in the next few years.

The Kingston Historical Society, PO Box, 333, Kingston. We meet in the Seniors Room of the Community Center the fourth Wednesday of the month at 10 a.m.