The Tenney Quilt: Celebrating the Women of Minnesota’s Tiniest Town

Amazon.com Price: $14.95 (as of 20/04/2019 00:13 PST- Details)

Categories: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Description

The Tenney Quilt is a tender and enlightening rendering of small-town life of the 1928 Midwestern woman. Haagenson pieces together this deeply personal account of the women and men of Tenney around an heirloom quilt with a history of its own. In 1928, Tenney’s Town Hall sought funds for a cook stove with the intention to accommodate the social events and gathering of the town’s residents. Several women initiated a project to raise the money: a signature quilt would be made, ten cents collected for each and every signature and piece of quilt added to the entire. What ensued used to be a gathering together of 530 people, their lives, their values, and a preservation of these documented in a hand-crafted chronicle of Tenney history. Haagenson uses the quilt to highlight the disparate lives of German, Scottish, and Norwegian immigrants working as school teachers, storekeepers, homemakers, nurses, factory workers, and seamstresses and how they come together to share their time and talents for their community. Chapter by chapter, thoughtful observation at the limitations placed on these women because of time and place is interspersed between accounts of the women’s honest and willful commitment to their families and each and every other. Schoolyard reminiscings, familiar rituals of church socials, and exciting historical “firsts” offer light to the hardships of day by day life in home and vocation. The Tenney Quilt is a warm and engaging read, a snapshot of the smallest Minnesota town illustrating both where we now have come from and how far we now have come.

Related products

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Americas » United States » Midwest » The Tenney Quilt: Celebrating the Women of Minnesota’s Tiniest Town

Recent Products