Club News

Six members of the Log Cabin Questers, along with guest Rachel Klein and her three children, met at the Wilson Memorial Library in Keota at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 7.

Rachel Klein gave a program and a tour about the Wilson Memorial Museum. She showed the friendship quilt, embroidered in red floss with a block done in black for remembrance of the deceased. Family members of many of those whose names are embroidered on the quilt, still reside in the Keota area.

The group then toured the museum full of many mementos of the Keota area. Members were especially interested in the Keota Glass display. Iowa State Questers will be hosting the International Quester Meeting in Des Moines in May. The presentations will be about Iowa and famous people and places in Iowa. One of the international seminars will be on Keota and Iowa City Glass. One of the out-of-town tours will be to Ames to visit the Quester Glass display, which includes Iowa City and Keota Glass. The Burnerrier Glass Museum is one of the Iowa Questers projects.

Keota is very fortunate to have a local display. This local display needs to be preserved. The Quester group would like to help with this project by focusing on an archival case for this collection, and is fortunate to have many people within the county with expertise in restoration.

Members also enjoyed looking at the many items that families and groups have given to the museum. The library has an extensive collection of the old Keota Eagle newspapers. This newspaper covers news from the western part of Washington County as well as news from Keokuk County from 1900 to the present.