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MAY 12
MAY 13
American Red Cross blood drive: 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. May 13, American Legion Post 286, 200 E. Union St., Newark. Participants must be ages 17 or older, 16 with parental consent, and bring ID. Visit redcross.org for information.
MAY 14-16
“We Will Rock You”: 7 p.m. May 14-15 and 2 p.m. May 16. Presented by the Newark High School Drama Club. $7. Visit newarkcsd.org/drama for streaming information.
MAY 15
Mammos and Makeovers To-Go: 9 a.m. to noon May 15, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital, 1200 Driving Park Ave., Newark. Patients will receive self-care items after their appointments. For information: bit.ly/3tJIsLe or 315-332-2241.
Wayne Post
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MAY 6
American Red Cross blood drive: noon to 5 p.m. May 6, India Community Center, 2171 Monroe-Wayne County Line Road, Macedon. Participants must be ages 17 or older, 16 with parental consent, and bring ID. Visit redcross.org for information.
MAY 8
Master Gardeners Plant Sale: 8 to 11 a.m. May 8, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wayne County, 1581 Route 88 North, Newark. Shop for perennials, native plants, vegetables, herbs, flowers and shrubs. Bring a box, crate or plastic tub to hold plants while shopping. Masks and social distancing required.
One of Historic Palmyraâs five museums, the Alling Coverlet Museum in Palmyra, New York, displays an impressive 500 bed-sized coverlets, along with a few quilts. A coverlet is a loom-woven bed covering usually made of cotton or linen.
Bonnie J. Hays, executive director of Historic Palmyra, said that equipment developed in 1804 by Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard, the Jacquard loom attachment, enabled people to make coverlets in whatever creative design they wished. By inserting punched cards into the attachment, they could make coverlets in custom designs, which launched a whole industry of traveling coverlet makers.
âYou would have to lay it out with graph paper,â Hays said. âItâs kind of like needlepoint. Before that time, people could weave them. People wove baskets during Jesusâ time.â