Tours
Amish Country Tour
Holmes County, Ohio is home to the largest Behalt Amish community in our country. This tour will immerse us in Amish and Mennonite history and will take us through the rolling countryside to an Amish home for lunch. Our hostess, a quilter with old order Amish and Mennonite heritage, will show her family quilts and speak on Amish traditions. A walking tour of Kidron will include the Sonneburg Heritage Center, Lehman's Hardware, and /or Hearthside Quilt Shop. The Wayne County Historical Society quilt collection in Wooster, Ohio will be the last stop before returning to the hotel.
Quilts of the Midwest: Creations of Art and Utility
This tour will take you to 5 of the 9 exhibits in “Quilts of the Midwest: Creations of Art and Utility” - the Martin de Porres Center, the Cultural Arts Center, the Ohio Historical Society, and the Snowden Gallery on the campus of the Ohio State University, the Ross Art Museum on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University. Along the way a guide will narrate the history of the largest privately owned restored historic area in the country, German Village, which is where your meal will be provided at Schmidt's, a German restaurant. More information about the quilts of the midwest and exhibits...
Nancy Crow Barn and Studio and the Dairy Barn Art Center
The opportunity to visit with Nancy Crow in her studio and a tour of the teaching barn on her farm in Baltimore, Ohio is a rare treat. From Baltimore the tour goes to Athens, Ohio to the renowned Dairy Barn Art Center, home of Quilt National. Here the private collection of the late Hilary Fletcher will be shown. Hilary was the Director of Quilt National for many years and collected art quilts. Dinner will be at Shade on the Canal in Canal Winchester, an Ohio canal town once so vital to the development of the Midwest.