On this day in 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Ohio natives Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight of a gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane. The first flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. The Wright’s day job back in Dayton, Ohio was building, selling and repairing bicycles.
This Lone Star quilt was pieced by [unknown first name] Smith and quilted by Margaret Shuping from Dayton, Ohio in the 1940’s. The current owner of the quilt documented the quilt during the North Carolina Quilt Project in Hendersonville, N.C. in 1985.
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Source:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-airplane-flies
Posted by Amy E. Milne
Executive Director, Quilt Alliance
amy.milne@quiltalliance.org