On this day in 1990, self-taught fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson discovered three large bones jutting out of a click near Faith, South Dakota. The bones turned out to be the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton ever discovered. The nearly 90 percent complete 65 million-year-old remains were later dubbed Sue.
Carrie Elizabeth McLane Flannery of Faith, South Dakota, won a Blue Ribbon for this Crazy Quilt in the South Dakota State Fair. Flannery made the quilt between 1901-1926, and the current owner documented the quilt during the Minnesota Quilt Project in the 1990’s.
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Source:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/skeleton-of-tyrannosaurus-rex-discovered
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/meet-dinosaur-expert-sue-hendrickson
Posted by Amy E. Milne
Executive Director, Quilt Alliance
amy.milne@quiltalliance.org