In this riveting performance by professional actress Michele LaRue, two vibrant American stories spirit us back to the days when quilts created community. We join a gaggle of townswomen—and meet a solitary spinster—who fashion remarkable art for everyday use. Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s The Bedquilt reveals the suspenseful journey of an unlikely heroine: old Aunt Mehetabel.

The Bedquilt, written in 1906, is introduced by the gleeful account of A Quilting Bee in Our Village, penned by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, eight years earlier. In Freeman’s little town, good food, gossip, and games make a successful bee—sewing is just the start.

Professional actress Michèle LaRue tours nationally with her repertoire of TALES WELL TOLD: stories from America’s Gilded Age and Progressive Era. In The Bedquilt, she creates a dozen distinctive characters, concluding her program with Aunt Mehetabel’s surprising backstory.

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This program supports PA Forward®, an initiative of the Pennsylvania Library Association that highlights libraries’ role in moving Pennsylvania forward. Libraries are key to powering progress, elevating the quality of life by fueling the types of knowledge essential to its success.