SAYRE, Oklahoma: Bring the family and join a Park Ranger at Gallery@112 for free storytelling & a craft. For the month of January, kids will learn about quilts with “Aunt Skilly and the Stranger” by Kathleen Stevens, a story about Aunt Skilly and her guard goose Buckle as they outsmart a would-be quilt thief.The accompanying activity is to make paper quilt notebooks. Quilting is a popular pastime for many Oklahomans.Quilting was common with the settlers coming westward. And the Cheyenne learned to quilt from missionaries after they moved onto reservations. Today the most popular design for Cheyenne quilts is the…
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