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Aurora:
An American Experience in Quilt, Community and Craft
(2008)
This spare and splendid book tells the story through quilts and crafts of the Aurora colony, the only utopian community of the 1850s to survive west of the Mississippi River. With beautiful photographs, Jane weaves the history of the colony with inspiration for preserving our own stories and sharing them with our families before its too late. For those who loved reading the Change and Cherish series following the life of Emma Wagner Giesy and her family as she makes her way within a German-American colony where women were better seen than heard, Aurora will take you to Emma’s home, view her quilts, and discover additional stories about the lives of people seeking a dream to serve God and community in a unique way in the 1850s, 60s, and 1870s. Finalist, WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, Women Writing the West.
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