| Special recognition is due many individuals and organizations for completing quilt inventory forms; loaning quilts; donating quilts and information; assisting at Quilt Discovery Days and in publications, exhibitions, and related educational programs; and providing financial or moral support: Lenetia Agnew, Milton Alstin, Howard Anderson, Patricia Anderson, John Barnes, Taylorie Bailey, Charline Beasley, Dave Benac, Steven Berg, Eva Boicourt, Betty Boone, Patricia Boucher, Sallie Brody, Janie Brooks, Ernie Brown, Sharon Anderson Brown, Audrey Bullett, John Cantlon, Helena Carey, Leona Center, Mildred Chenault, Gary Clark, Blanche Cox, Pat Davis, Marit Dewhurst, Richard Dunlap, Mary Lou Enders, Anne Fairchild, Bruce Fox, Deborah Grayson, Bernice Fitzpatrick Green, John Green, Bruce Haight, Bill Harris, Mary Ellen Hicks, Todd Edwin Hollis, Jennifer Jones, Maggie Jones, Joyce Laing, Mymia Large, Dorothy Lester, Ruth Lorenger, Betty MacDowell, Pepper Cory Magyar, Michelle Manning, Ben Mitchell, Peggy Moore, Lori S. Naples, Jeff Niese, Gerri Peeples, Stephanie Polzin, Kathryn Pore, Melissa Prine, Gregory Reed, Harry Reed, Janice Rolston, Joe Rolston, Lucille Rolston, Timothy Rosin, Betty Shelby, Lester Shick, Merri Silber, Ray Silverman, Consuelo Smith, Marcia Sparks, Ron Sparks, Elaine Steele, Henrietta Summers, Cledie Taylor, Pat Thompson, Corky Tuttle, Fran Vincent, Jane Wade, Steve Webster, Madeline Berry White, Nicole Wilhite, Sylvia Williams, Ben Wilson, Pat Wilson, Martha Wimbush, Naomi Wright, Cynthia Young, and members of the 1988 Michigan State University Black Heritage Celebration CaucusLinda Beard, Anita Marshall, Annie Pitts, Harry Reed, George Rowan, and Silas Taylor. |
| The development of this publication benefitted greatly from discussions over the years with Cuesta Benberry, Deborah Smith Barney, Betty MacDowell, Anita Marshall, Sarah Carolyn Reese, Carole Harris, and Gladys-Marie Fry. I am also indebted to Deborah Smith Barney, Derenda Collins, C. Kurt Dewhurst, Ruth D. Fitzgerald, Deonna Green, LaNeysa Harris-Featherstone, and Elaine Steele for their helpful comments on the manuscript. Lynne Swanson's contributions were numerousfrom conducting field interviews and writing exhibit labels to providing coordination of a wide variety of research and collection-management activities related to this project. Graduate assistants Deborah Smith Barney, Denise Pilato, and Catherine Johnson Adams all contributed exemplary fieldwork as did the late contracted fieldworker Wythe Dornan. Michigan State University Museum colleagues Laurie K. Sommers, LuAnne G. Kozma, Yvonne Lockwood, and Julie Avery provided encouragement and support as did Betty Boone of the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. |
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