{"id":725,"date":"2013-06-21T17:13:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T00:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2013-06-21T17:14:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T00:14:05","slug":"quilt-code-at-dar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/21\/quilt-code-at-dar\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilt Code at DAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quilt Code at DAR<\/p>\n<p>Members and guests of the Col. Wm. Prescott Chapter NSDAR sat in rapt attention as Susan Howard presented \u201cHidden In Plain View; The Secret Story of Slave Quilts and the Underground Railroad\u201d at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, June 19, at the Chapter House, 119 High Street, Newark, NY.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c This area of Wayne County has so many rich and varied historic events to be proud of,\u201d\u00a0 Susan Howard said.\u00a0 \u201cOne of those local events is being part of the underground railroad. The \u201chidden In Plain View\u201d or \u201cThe Quilt Code\u201d is the ingenious method the slaves used to aid each other in locating safe places in the North.\u00a0\u00a0 They\u00a0 look for the special quilt innocently airing on an underground\u00a0 station\u2019s back porch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Susan Howard, a retired 4<sup>th<\/sup> Grade teacher from the Canandaigua School System, has always had an interest in history, especially, local history.\u00a0 She read a book about quilts that piqued her curiosity.\u00a0 The book told of the different methods of quilting and mentioned the \u201cquilt code\u201d.\u00a0 She delved into the topic, talked with many other people, and now shares her new found knowledge to expose the untold story.<\/p>\n<p>Information about the Log Cabin pattern\u2019s yellow center square passed orally from slave to slave, from plantation to plantation during religious meetings and clandestine meetings in the dark of night.\u00a0 Great care had to be taken to only share the code with like-minded slaves, as there were some that preferred to relay any escape plans to the plantation owner.<\/p>\n<p>Although Howard is not a quilter, she has a Sampler Quilt of several coded squares pieced by Anne Johnson of Canandaigua, NY, to display as she\u00a0 orally stitches the pieces of the secret story of slave quilts and the underground railroad<a href=\"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/21\/quilt-code-at-dar\/quilt-code\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-726\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-726\" alt=\"Quilt Code\" src=\"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Quilt-Code-247x300.jpg\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Quilt-Code-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Quilt-Code-844x1024.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quilt Code at DAR Members and guests of the Col. Wm. Prescott Chapter NSDAR sat in rapt attention as Susan Howard presented \u201cHidden In Plain View; The Secret Story of Slave Quilts and the Underground Railroad\u201d at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, June 19, at the Chapter House, 119 High Street, Newark, NY. \u201c This area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}