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Wayne County Endowment awards 31 grants COURTESY OF WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT In the past year, the Wayne County Community Endowment awarded 31 grants totaling $95,890 to support nonprofits that serve area residents, with $33,750 distributed from its Emergency Relief Fund to address local needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The pandemic greatly strained the operations of many nonprofits providing critical services to Wayne County residents and we knew that our role was to make sure these services would continue,” said C.J. Britt, advisory board chair. “We are grateful for all of the contributions from those in our community who helped to make the emergency support possible.” ....
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 ....