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The New England Quilt Museum is a landmark in the heart of America's historic textile-producing region, housed in a 19th-century former bank building in the heart of lovely downtown Lowell, Massachusetts.

The museum is the only institution in the northeast solely dedicated to the art and craft of quilting, both traditional and contemporary. Through special exhibits, workshops, lectures, and a variety of community outreach activities, the non-profit New England Quilt Museum studies, preserves, and promotes this very American art form. The Museum Shop carries a wide variety of books, jewelry, fabric, toys, and other items of interest to the quilter and non-quilter alike. The Permanent Collection contains antique and contemporary quilts, quilt tops, textile samples, and sewing ephemera, portions of which are rotated out of storage and displayed as part of four or more special exhibitions mounted each year.

In addition to two passes to the museum, enjoy two books from the American Quilts series. 

A family, like a quilt, can be pieced together in many ways. And a quilt, like a family, is rich with stories. Lacey's great-grandmother has a trunkful of family quilts, and stories, she loves to share with Lacey. And the stories the old quilts tell help Lacey understand not only the generations that have come before her, but her own family as well.

Book 3: Daniel's Story

Take Daniel, Lacey's great-great-grandfather, growing up on his grandparents' Illinois farm in 1890. Daniel is happy on the farm, but he is determined to find a way to get out west to visit his father so they can be a whole family again. He hatches an ingenious if risky scheme to make the trip, but when he arrives at the depot in Valentine, Nebraska, he finds the little town abuzz with fears of a Sioux uprising. And an even bigger surprise awaits him at his father's cabin, forcing Daniel to rethink his idea of what makes a family whole.

Book 4: Ida Lou's Story

Take Lacey's great-great-aunt Ida Lou, living with her brother, Vic, and their struggling single mother in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1918. Vic wants to join the fighting overseas, while Ida Lou dreams of becoming an aerialist like her heroes, The Flying Wards. She's sure that traveling with the circus will enable her to find her long-absent father. But even as a rich suitor for Ida Lou's mother promises a bright future for the family, a near-tragic accident threatens to put an end to Ida Lou's dreams.

Item Special Note

Passes expire 12/31/2018. 

The winning bidder will be responsible for shipping and handling costs, in addition to the purchase price. Alternatively, the winner may arrange in advance to pick up the item at The Discovery Museums office (Monday – Friday, between 8:30 and 4:30).