Appendix A: Sample Press Release

For Immediate Release

SewBeautiful Quilt Guild
P.O. Box 111
Anywhere, State 00000
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Contact Person: Karen Musgrave (000) 000-0000

Every Quilt Tells a Story- Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories

Members of the SewBeautiful Quilt Guild will be conducting, a Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories, an oral history documentation project on November 2, 2002 at (location), address from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. The guild will collect the stories of our local quilters.

Participants have been invited to bring along a quilt of special importance to them to help spark their stories. Pat Smith of Newark, Delaware, will photograph the quiltmakers and their quilts as part of the project.

"At first I was nervous and didn't think I had anything to contribute because I am a relatively new quilter," Bonnie Kraft said, "Now I understand the project. Now I can't wait."

Each interview will last about forty-five minutes and is open to anyone who makes quilts. These tape-recorded interviews will become a part of the national Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories (Q.S.O.S.) as well as being archived with the guild. Q.S.O.S. is devoted to documenting the history of quilts through tape-recorded interviews. It is one of many quilt preservation projects of The Alliance for American Quilts.

The information that is shared will be invaluable to future researchers interested in the history of quiltmaking as understood through individual experience. Imagine how exciting it would be if we could listen to the words of quiltmakers who lived one hundred years ago. All the interviews and photographs will eventually be available on the Internet on The Alliance's webpage http://www.centerforthequilt.org/qsos/qsos.html.

The archival collection of tape-recorded interviews, transcriptions, photographs and notes compiled by SewBeautiful Quilt Guild will be sent to The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. They have agreed to house the archival collection. Duplicates of everything will be maintained by the guild.

"We are so excited and proud to be a part of this," Sue Brown, guild president said. "Anyone interested in getting involved or just wants a better understanding can come to our meeting on October 30 at Name of location."

For more information about Q.S.O.S., contact Karen Musgrave (000) 000-0000 or Julia Jones (000) 000-0000. If you are interested in being interviewed, please contact Beatrice Fox at (000) 000-0000.

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