From: Leigh Ann Heineman, Executive Director

Highlands Museum and Discovery Center

KHQS District 10 Member

February will bring our Black History Month celebration. Please join us for a special African-American quilt exhibit that will be featured in conjunction with “Beyond the Log Cabin.” This magnificent exhibit of quilts is brought to the Highlands from Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, a world renowned quilt artist and founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network. It is titled “Abraham Lincoln: The Emancipation and the African-American Experience.” You won’t want to miss this terrific exhibit. Mazloomi has commissioned quilt artist Carolyn Crump to create a fabulous quilt specifically for our exhibit. You will definitely be moved when you see this amazing work of art. The exhibit will open First Friday on February 5, 2010 and will continue through March.

The Highlands Museum & Discovery Center is celebrating National Quilt Month and is co-hosting Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society Quilter’s Day Out March 20, 2010, from

9:30 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. Quilts from our collection also will be on display throughout the museum during March. There is no charge to come in the Highlands Museum & Discovery Center during Quilter’s Day Out on Saturday, March 20, 2010, this day only.

There is going to be a special showing of Elizabeth Mitchell’s 1836 Graveyard Quilt Top from March 11 – 20, 2010. This quilt is so frail that it may be some time before it is on public display again. The Michelle’s quilt top and quilt in Frankfort is not only a Kentucky treasure quilt, it is one of two known world treasures and we have both here in Kentucky. This has a history on a local family from this area. The family lived in Greenup, Boyd, and Lewis Counties and cross the country to the west coast. You will not want to miss seeing this historical quilt top.

The Mitchell 1836 Quilt Top can be viewed from March 11 - 20 during normal operating hours and cost at the Highlands Museum & Discovery Center. Normal hours are Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M., closed Sunday & Monday. Admission: Adults: $5.50, Children 2 and over $4.50. Children under 2: FREE; seniors: $4.50; members: FREE.

Contact HM&DC, Executive Director Leigh Ann Heineman for more information

at 606-329-8888, e-mail address: leighann@highlandsmuseum.com

1620 Winchester Avenue, Ashland, KY 41101, web site: www.highlandsmuseum.com

We graciously extend and invitation to each and every one of you. If you haven’t stopped in for a while, we’d love to see you. And if you’ve never been here, now is the time.