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HE HAPPENED UPON HOBBY. NOW, HER QUILTS HERALDED EVERYWHERE By LIBBY CUDMORE SCHENEVUS ome people make scrapbooks, slideshows or websites of family photographs and letters. Mary Wirchansky hand-stitches quilts. “It’s like those old paint-bynumbers kits, but with fabric,” she said modestly. A portrait quilt of her grandfather, Joseph Kader Bryan Sr., titled “Waiting for the Mail,” took the People’s Choice prize at the 22nd annual Fenimore Quilt Club Show, which closed Sunday, Feb. 24, at the Cooperstown Art Association. The quilt was in the making for three years, on and off. And on Thanksgiving 2011, Wirchansky realized that if she was going to finish it, she was going to have to devote herself to it. “I got up at 4:30 in the morning, when it was quiet,” she said. “And there were times I got really stuck, and I just prayed for a way out – and I got one.” The quilt depicts Mary’s granddad waiting with his dog, Queen, Mary Wirchansky’s portrain quilt of her grandfather won the 22nd annual Fenimore Quilt Show in Coopertown, but her creations have been heralded far and wide.
in front of the house he built in Kenansville, N.C. The mailbox is the only detail the Schenevus woman will admit she fudged. “I didn’t have his mailbox,” she said. “So I used my neighbor’s.” Her mother saved letters her father sent in the 1930s and ’40s, and Wirchansky used excerpts from those letters – as well as fabric copies of the stamps on the envelopes – to make up parts of the quilt’s sky. “I traced the letters,” she said. “It’s his handwriting.” On the back of the quilt is a scrapbook photograph of aunts, cousins and her grandmother copied onto fabric. There’s also an article about him, and his obituary. “He died a few months before I was born,” she said. “But I had cousins who remembered him, and I wanted to make this as a tribute to him … I was intrigued by the letters he wrote her during the Depression – it was such a hard time, but he was such a strong person.” One such excerpt, printed in the sky of the quilt, reads, “The Lord will provide – one time we were down to 10 cents, but by the end of the night, we had $20 on hand.” While pleased to win the latest accolade, Mary Wirchansky – and her quilts – are no strangers to awards and honors. OTSEGO.seniority Please See QUILT, B3
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Renovations Highlight City Hall’s Classical Charms At 100, Oneonta Main Street Landmark Still A Beloved Icon Two “small-scale” projects are underway in the former post office, the first being the restoration of the front doors, ONEONTA which have been part of the building since it was built. or its 100th birthday, City Hall is “They’re large doors, but over time, getting a little work done. the elements have gotten to them,” Long A metal front said. “The varnish door in place of the wore off, exposing usual solid oak ones, and the wood, which was scaffolding in the 1913 starting to deterioClassical Revival lobby rate.” are the tip-offs. Then there are “I like saving old repairs in progress buildings,” said City on the ceiling of the Manager Mike Long. lobby, which contains “It’s a lot less expensive City Hall, Oneonta’s former fairly high-style eleto repair than to replace.” post office, is 100 this year. Please See ICON, A3
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Quiltmaker Inspired By Respect For Family History QUILT/From B1 “Waiting for the Mail” also won “Best Pictorial” at the Vermont Quilt Festival at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, and “Best of Country” for the U.S. at the World Quilt Show in Manchester, Vt., last August. She jokes that she “grew up with scraps” from a mother who quilted, but she didn’t take up the hobby until the mid ’80s, when she took an adulted class. “I made a chair seat with a ruffle,” she said. “And I thought, ‘I can do this’.” She started doing landscapes, including one of the James Pearsall Cemetery in Dupin County, N.C., where four generations of grandparents are buried. Though raised outside of Schenectady, she visited family in North Carolina every year, and many of her quilts pay tribute to the landscape, the family and the faces she knew. Her first person – an elderly lady with a lace shawl that she said was a composite of the elderly women she
knew in N.C - appeared on a quilt she made in 1996 that became part of the Tactile Architecture Quilt exhibit in Austria. But her first photo-real pictorial quilt was of her great-grandmother, Susan Ann Pearsall-Bryan. “She was amazing,” she said. “She had seven children, and only my grandfather survived – two died in childbirth, the others died of TB in their 20s. My grandfather was 15 when his dad died of TB. She was one tough lady.” That quilt, titled “Words Remembered,” features excerpts from a diary her grandmother kept from 1869, when she was 16, to 1875; the original is in the archives of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. “Words Remembered” was also a 2005 Viewer’s Choice at the Fenimore Quilt Show and was featured on the cover of Quilting Quarterly magazine in 2008. Though she doesn’t yet have plans OTSEGO.seniority Mary Wirchansky happened to for her next quilt, she feels “blessed” take an adult-ed course, and for the talent. “I really love to bring discovered she had a profound all the history together,” she said.
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the stairs, causing pieces to crack off and crumble to the floor. Samples of the plaster were removed to Domer Construction in Lancaster, outside Buffalo, where they are being used as casts for replacement parts. A new frieze will be made for the wall, and “little rosettes” are being made for the ceiling tiles. A local contractor was sought, but this work is specialized. “That’s what (Domer’s) known for,” said Long, who anticipates the work will be done by midMarch. The building’s Classical style was popular in the early 19th century, said
tor of technical services. “All those fine details, the columns, details that reflect Greek temples or ancient Rome,” she said. The building functioned as the city’s post office until 1967, when the new one was built three blocks to the east. It then sat empty until 1973, when it was purchased for a new City Hall. Instead of completely redoing the floor plan, the classic post office windows were preserved, and today front the city clerk’s and finance offices. “The whole concept of historic preservation is to ‘adaptively reuse’,” said Long. “You keep the important aspects and try to use them as sensitively as you can.” And preservation doesn’t stop with the doors and the ceiling. While “crawling around” in the attic, Long happened upon the building’s old lights. “I want to restore them to their original places,” he said. “The globe lights are too ’80s – I just need to find some photographs of where they had them before.” In 1985, the Preservation League presented the city with a Historic Civic Building Award for the building, which is also on the National Register of Historic Places. “This kind of public building is meant to be inspirational,” said Werbizky. “It’s wonderful to hear that the community is taking such pride in this project.”
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