SOUTH PARIS — A piece of South Paris history will be featured as part of the 2014 Moore Park Art Show, organizers have announced. Four panels of a multi-panel quilt depicting the schoolhouses of South Paris by the late Barbara Swan Frost (1915-2009) will be featured on the 2014 Moore Park Art Show poster.
Exhibitors are still being sought for this celebration and sale of original arts from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 27. This annual event will feature 60 artists, a full day of live entertainment and some great eats.
Frost was active in both the quilting and historical circles in western Maine. The quilt represents her passions by depicting 19 school houses of South Paris including: Lincoln Hall, Paris Hill; earliest Forbes Schoolhouse; Oxford Normal Institute; third Partridge Schoolhouse; Stearns Hill Schoolhouse; Lincoln School, Paris Hill; first Streaked Mountain Schoolhouse; Bisco Schoolhouse; Shurtleff School; Brick School; Paris Hill Academy; Webber Schoolhouse, Elm Hill; Pleasant Street School; King Schoolhouse; Whittemore Schoolhouse; second Streaked Mountain Schoolhouse; the Hungry Hollow School; Brimstone Corner-Bolster District; and the Tubbs Schoolhouse.
Known as an avid volunteer in the public schools, a historian of local history, a speaker, a writer and a quilter, Frost supported many historical and quilting organizations. In addition to being a member of the Paris Hill, Buckfield and Hebron Historical societies, she was a charter and lifetime member of the Paris Cape Historical Society, which houses her South Paris Schoolhouses quilt.
She was the coordinator and quiltmaker of the Oxford County Bicentennial Quilt of 2005 that hangs in the Oxford County Court House in South Paris. In 2004 she was honored as Quilter of the Year at the Augusta Civic Center. Frost also served on the boards of the Pine Tree Quilters Guild and Pine Needles Quilters of Norway-Paris.
The Moore Park Art Show will feature fine quilters and fiber artists. An event of the town of Paris Parks and Recreation committee, artists and artisans may apply for a booth spot at www.mooreparkartshow.biz. For more information, call 207-890-6386.
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- A quilt by the late Barbara Swan Frost depicting all the school houses of South Paris will be the featured poster art for the 2014 Moore Park Art Show. The four shown here, clockwise from top left: Shurtleff School, Stearns Hill School, Paris Hill Academy, Lincoln School, and Paris Hill.
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