$500 reward offered for . . .

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9/11 Commemoration Quilt Could Be Lost Cause;
Designers Believe it was Put in Trash;
Designers Offer ($500.00) Reward for Missing Quilt

by Megan Tench, Globe Staff, August 30, 2005

Have You Seen this 6 x 8 foot Hand-made Quilt?


Days before a quilt created by local Muslim women was set to go on display at the Peabody Essex Museum (in Salem, Massachusetts), it has disappeared -- possibly carried away with the trash.

The elaborate quilt, designed in part by Clara Wainwright, an artist who founded the New Year's celebration First Night, is part of a three-year project to create designs representing ways in which the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed people's religious faith.

It was the first of nearly 60 quilts from various religious and cultural perspectives to be completed, said Wainwright, who started the Faith Quilts Project in 2002. The quilt was created by 20 immigrant Muslim women who now live in the Boston area. Its bold colors and intricate designs featuring the pillars and prophets of Islam so impressed project organizers that they decided to unveil it at the museum.

But the 6-by-8-foot work of art was discovered missing last week from the Cambridge study of one of its designers, Wainwright said. A $500 reward has been offered for its safe return.

"The quilt was stored with the woman who helped me organize this project," Wainwright said. "She was storing it in her study in a trash bag. The quilt is very large, and she thinks that when she went away in June, the cleaning woman must've put it out on the street and there it went."

. . . more at . . . http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/08/30/911_commemoration_quilt_could_be_lost_cause?mode=PF
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[Tace]

1. I Had Something Similar Happen...

I kept some important stuff in a trash bag, and my cleaning lady threw it out. It was a serious bummer, but nothing like this.

I don't store things in trash bags any more.

[Joyce78]

2. You can afford a cleaning lady?

Do you call her "Mom"?
Who has a cleaning lady? My daughter is marrying a Repuke ... his parents have a "cleaning lady" for their main home and also one for their "vacation home". Needless to say, we're not even sure that we can attend this "wedding".

[TaleWgnDg]

4. Yeah, I hear that! . . .

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Yeah. I hear that! However, who would have guessed that anyone would not check the contents b4 assuming it's trash and setting it out as such? That is, everyone uses trash bags for other things beside trash. How tragic!

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[kcass1954]

3. I'm a quilter, and I hate to hear things like this.

The loss can be reported at the following site.

http://www.lostquilt.com/

They may or may not get it back, but it will get the word out and maybe someone will recognize it somewhere.

[TaleWgnDg]

5. I'll pass that info along . . . thanks. n/t