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1510th Meeting
January 8, 1987
Martha Ligon
Great Effort

Great Effort received Association members for their 1510th meeting on a snowy January
8th with great warmth. After a bountiful lunch full of good things the meeting was called
to order by Nell Johnsen and the guests were introduced: Martha Ligon's long-time friend,
Laura Carn, and her excellent helper, Cutran, Mimi and Julie Ligon and daughter-in-law, Anita
The two sets of minutes were read and the Treasury of $4 was augmented by the
collection of dues in the amount of $33. As is customary in January, the Association Rules
and Regulations were read and the election of officers followed. Deb Willson resigned as
Treasurer after 17 long years and Joy Shotts agreed to take over. Rose Hutton resigned as
Chairman of The Place of Meeting Committee since there seemed little need for this group, and
Mary Seiler agreed to continue as Secretary. The next three places of meeting were announced:
Mary Moore Miller at Peg Gibian's on February 5th, Mary Reading and Mary Lil switched, so the
March meeting will be with Mary Lillian Moore and the April meeting will be with Mary Reading
Miller.

As her sentiment , Martha offered the following: "home is a place where love bears
flowers and living means so much."

Joy Shotts, for her contribution, gave us news of Museum plans. She said the pre-
Christmas open house and craft sale netted the Museum $1100. The craft sale will probably
be held before Thanksgiving this year. Among coming events, an antique valentine display,
an April trip to Winterthur, a costume exhibition(which, we hear, will include Sylvia
Woodward's wedding teddy undies) and the June Strawberry Festival.

Sylvia Woodward had an old Chinese proverb told her by a nurse at Nursing Home-
worry is like a rocking chair, it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere. Sylvia's question:
could she have the recipe for the delicious lace cookies we enjoyed at lunch? Martha will give
it to her.

Beth Bullard brought us information on asters found in A Guide to Enjoy Wild Flowers,
by Don and Lillian Stokes, known for their books on bird behavior. "Aster" is derived from
the Greek word for star. Like stars, a god scatered them across the landscape. They belong
to a composite family with hundreds of species. Familiar to most are the deep purple New
England aster, the front astes which bloom after frost, and the Michaelmas Daisy, so-called
because they ate in bloom on Michaelmas Day, Sept. 29th. Because of this late-blooming trait
asters have been much hybridized.

Chris Kolstad was interested in some facts she had read concerning colonial New England.
Apparently there was little child abuse and family ties and ties with neighbors were closer.
Midlife crisis - that time when individuals become aware of wrong choices in life - did not
exist although death was always much closer. Chris had a question about her Ficus plant - it
looks very tall and seems to bleed. Turning it was suggested as one remedy for tallness.

Rose Hutton passed along some observations made by Katherine Hepburn who said "out of
the mouths of babes comes everything" - they want everything nowadays. How really happy are
people these days? Too many seem to be ready for the psychiatrist. Rose brought love from
Bette Hartge, and had the name of a china replacement firm for Louie called Replacements Ltd.
in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Louie Canby continued reading her history of tapestries from Horizons. Wool and linen
fibers, used in Egyptian weaving were later used in Europe. In 13th century Europe tapestries
were costly and often took 10 years to complete. Only the Church and the aristocracy could
afford them.and they often accompanied kings and nobleman in their travels. By the Renaissance
thousands worked in the tapestry shops and great painters like Raphael were painting the
designs for them.

Mimi Ligon who had seen the Goya exhibition at the National Gallery said Goya had
created genre scenes for the Madrid tapestry factory. Goya later became painter to the King.