Children's story - fire and quilts
Dates: 3/27/02,9:20 AM through 3/27/02,1:56 PM (3 postings)
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Children's story - fire and quilts
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FROM: Stella Hill Memorial Library <altolib@netdot.com>
REC'D: 3/27/02, 9:20 AM
>When I was in elementary school in the mid-60s, my class read a story (I
think it was either in our reader or our social studies book) about a
prairie family. In one part of the story, their fields were on fire. The
father used the horses to plow a fire ring around their house and the
mother and children wet quilts and put them on the roof to keep sparks from
setting the roof on fire. Ultimately the house was saved, but a corner had
been burned off one of the quilts. The mother mended the quilt and
embroidered the date of the fire on the patch.
Does anyone remember reading this story and know what book it's from?
I'd love to have it to read to my daughters and just for me, too.
Many thanks for any help or suggestions.
>Virginia Singletary
>Stella Hill Memorial Library
>Alto, Texas
>altolib@netdot.com
FROM: Karen Nicholson <karenn@alcor.concordia.ca>
REC'D: 3/27/02, 9:52 AM
Stella Hill Memorial Library wrote:
> This is a second-hand request forwarded to our library from a patron's
> quilt group. I am hoping someone on this list will recognize the story.
>
> >When I was in elementary school in the mid-60s, my class read a story (I
> think it was either in our reader or our social studies book) about a
> prairie family. In one part of the story, their fields were on fire. The
> father used the horses to plow a fire ring around their house and the
> mother and children wet quilts and put them on the roof to keep sparks from
> setting the roof on fire. Ultimately the house was saved, but a corner had
> been burned off one of the quilts. The mother mended the quilt and
> embroidered the date of the fire on the patch.
> Does anyone remember reading this story and know what book it's from?
> I'd love to have it to read to my daughters and just for me, too.
> Many thanks for any help or suggestions.
>
> >Virginia Singletary
> >Stella Hill Memorial Library
> >Alto, Texas
> >altolib@netdot.com
>
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FROM: "Joy Tofteland" <tofteland@ankeny.k12.ia.us>
REC'D: 3/27/02, 1:56 PM
Joy Tofteland
Reference/ Technical Resources Librarian
Kirkendall Public Library
Ankeny, IA
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Subject: Children's story - fire and quilts
This is a second-hand request forwarded to our library from a patron's
quilt group. I am hoping someone on this list will recognize the story.
>When I was in elementary school in the mid-60s, my class read a story (I
think it was either in our reader or our social studies book) about a
prairie family. In one part of the story, their fields were on fire. The
father used the horses to plow a fire ring around their house and the
mother and children wet quilts and put them on the roof to keep sparks from
setting the roof on fire. Ultimately the house was saved, but a corner had
been burned off one of the quilts. The mother mended the quilt and
embroidered the date of the fire on the patch.
Does anyone remember reading this story and know what book it's from?
I'd love to have it to read to my daughters and just for me, too.
Many thanks for any help or suggestions.
>Virginia Singletary
>Stella Hill Memorial Library
>Alto, Texas
>altolib@netdot.com
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