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Laura Rice, pictured at left, displays the quilt that earned Best of Show honors in Quilts of the Plains in Wray on Saturday, June 26. Creative Traditions owner Julie Haake of Holyoke is pictured at right, as she transported 38 quilts from Holyoke to the show.  — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications

Rice wins Best of Show quilt honors

Laura Rice of Venango, Nebraska, was convinced by Creative Traditions owner Julie Haake to enter some of her quilting talent in the Quilts of the Plains show in Wray on Saturday, June 26.

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Members of the Grand Army of the Republic are pictured from left, front row, William D. Kelsey, George Trego, P.B. Woodhams, Willis A. Olmsted, Dale W. Hotaling and an unknown captain; and back row, Robert A. White, Hugh W. Eaton, J.T. Castellaw, Milton D. Copp, James W.L. Conklin and Robert A. Holmes. The GAR was an organization of veterans of the Union Army, Navy and Marines who served in the Civil War. Trego served from 1861-65 out of Illinois and was a prisoner in Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, for 10 days near the end of the war. Olmsted served with Company E, 36th Illinois Infantry. He joined at 15 and was mustered to New Orleans, Louisiana. White, who was born in Scotland, enlisted in a New York regiment at the outbreak of the war. He received the rank of corporal and his U.S. citizenship at the end of the war. — Source: Phillips county Museum

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