“Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Code to Freedom” Featured in Tiskilwa Program on Monday, March 9
As a little girl, Connie Boswell [Martin] was fascinated with her mother’s stories of their family’s heritage and details of her ancestors’ long road to freedom. Beginning at 7:00 p.m. Monday evening, March 9, at Tiskilwa’s Museum on Main, Connie will share the significance of quilt patterns with special stitching as secret messages to slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad. Connie’s multi-media presentation is based on extensive Underground Railroad research to go along
