CAMPUS NOTES: Wright State turns 50-years-old in 2017
The 47 quilts highlighted were created for patients’ rooms at Hospice of Dayton, according to the university. The quilts, made by the Miami Valley Quilters Guild and no longer on display at hospice, are the centerpiece of the three-day show.
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The show will also include a quilt of John Crawford III, a 22-year-old African-American shot to death in 2014 by a police officer in a Walmart store in Beavercreek. Crawford was holding an air rifle picked up from a store shelf.
Some quilts will be auctioned off for scholarships, according to the university.
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