Staff photo / Marly Reichert
Clare Neff, who owns Village Quilts on Main Street in Canfield with her sister, Betty Aberson, holds up a quilt made by their great-grandmother, Eleanor Manchester Tate, in 1938.
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CANFIELD The sewing gene may have skipped a generation in the Manchester family, but it is firmly planted in sisters Clare Neff and Betty Aberson, who own Village Quilts on Main Street in the center of the city’s downtown.