tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7389386796695041782.post8247219046466609586..comments2024-01-10T18:01:49.306-08:00Comments on Kitambaa: A Legacy in Wool - The Quilts of Eleanora LaffinPippa Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13145906840641291655noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7389386796695041782.post-46535139307377900482017-06-01T01:46:33.328-07:002017-06-01T01:46:33.328-07:00For more than 45 years Eleanora has helped in so m...For more than 45 years Eleanora has helped in so many ways to "keep Hornby organized and on track." Leading by example. Just walk past the Laffin home ,stiudo,garden and wood lot. I feel like I am passing a Cathedral .Eleanora's tenure on Hornby began years before it was fasionable to be a back to the lander. In the mid 60's and 70's,of the 120 or so year round residents so many come to mind who were strong women who led our community.Hard wirking women who were not afarid to take a chance. The outside the box thinking that saw our 1898 school saved and moved to the New Horisions property for a Fabricators Center. The magnificent history of quilting on Hornby. Those quilts displayed at our Co-Op store that opened in 1954 in Pete Osby's twenty by twenty all hand split red cedar shed. Way before Co-Op's were fashionable. Held together by the glue of women like Elnora,Rita.HILLARY,Murial,Betty.the first chair of the Islands Trust. Then there was Kalab and Joan living up at Stanyard's ,who gave birth to our underground Co-Op,what a wake up call for keeping our store priced more afordably. Judy Cross who stood up publicly for what she knew was right.Then Jennifer who defied logic in the service and range of products she brought on island to help us all. Elnanora there with all these magnificent women demonstrating what a powerful Cathedral Hornby has always been. Celibrating our continuing rights of passage. Still we heal and dance ! Tim Bigginsnoreply@blogger.com