Press Release - September 18, 2007
Contact: Julie Tollefson
info@rivercityreadingfestival.org
785.979.9306
River City Reading Festival quilt on display at Lawrence Public Library
A quilt celebrating the River City Reading Festival is on display now at the south entrance of the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. The quilt will be given away in a drawing at the River City Reading Festival on Sunday, October 14, 2007, at the Lawrence Arts Center.
The queen-size (100" X 84") quilt was machine pieced by "The Cut Ups," (Michele Berndt, Cindy Foster, Leslie Michel, and Carolyn Spohn), and machine quilted by Gail Olson of G & R Quilting. The design is based on the River City Reading Festival logo and the blocks are based on a collection of Kansas blocks by Jeanne Poore.
Tickets for the quilt drawing may be obtained at the locations listed below. A donation is requested, but no donation or purchase is necessary to participate in the drawing.
Central National Bank:
711 Wakarusa Drive
800 Massachusetts St.
603 W. Ninth St.
2321 Harper St.
3140 Nieder Road
3300 Iowa (inside Wal-Mart)
Capital City Bank:
740 New Hampshire St.
4000 W. Sixth St. (inside Hy-Vee)
The first-ever River City Reading Festival will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 14, 2007, at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St.
The daylong celebration of reading will bring together dozens of authors and performers, most of whom have strong connections to Kansas. Keynote speaker will be Jim Lehrer, host of "The NewsHour" on PBS. Other featured authors include Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low-Weso, award-winning children's author Lise Lunge-Larsen, and artist and author Stephen Johnson, a native of Lawrence.