Home Ec building at the fair a reminder of a bygone age
Steve Hess of Soap Lake demonstrates the intricacies of a 1918 wooden loom to Jael Pinkerton, 7, of Quincy at the Grant County Fair Tuesday. Hess restored the loom himself, he said, along with many others.
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Quilts cover the walls of the Home Economics Building at the Grant County Fair Tuesday.
Some of the quilts on display at the Grant County Fair Tuesday were quite intricate, including a compass rose, a musical motif and a stylized unicycle rider with the words “She who sews will also reap.”
Fran Christensen, left, of Moses Lake chats with food preservation Superintendent Gayle Sullivan at the Grant County Fair. Food canning is a lost art, Sullivan said, but one well worth knowing.
MOSES LAKE — A traveler from a century ago would recognize the craftsmanship of the displays in the Home Economics Building at the Grant County Fair, possibly more readily than a modern observer.
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