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Knitting First Ladies - Unraveling History

Program Type:

Lectures

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

Debra Scala Giokas, author of Ladies, First: Common Threads will share images of needlework and tell stories about a dozen first ladies who knitted, crocheted, embroidered, quilted, cross-stitched or sewed. Their inspirational stories will encourage an appreciation of craft and creativity, patience and perseverance, sacrifice and service, and most of all, the role of the first lady in the history of the United States of America.