Laurel Horton

Laurel Horton has contributed the Laurel Horton Collection on Shape-Note Singing, 1979-2006 to UNC-CH.

From that, under Biographical/historical: “Laurel Horton, of Seneca, S.C., is a folklorist, textile researcher, author, and quilter. Born in Kentucky in 1948, Horton holds a BA and MSLS from the University of Kentucky; she earned an MA in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979. Horton has conducted research on quilts and quiltmaking since the 1970s; she is a former board member and past president of the American Quilt Study Group. Horton is the author and editor of several books, including Quiltmaking in America: Beyond the Myths (1994) and Mary Black's Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life (2005).”

(Her quilting archive is at the University of Nebraska.)

Roles undertaken (and minuted)

• 2016: Brasstown: host
• 2015: Brasstown: host
• 2011: Brasstown: host
• 2010: Brasstown: chair, host
• 2009: Brasstown: host
• 2003: Brasstown: chair
• 1994: Webster: singing-school

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