Paul Revere House to Host Lecture on 19th-Century Massachusetts Crazy Quilting and Memory-Making
The Paul Revere House, in partnership with GBH, Suffolk University History Department, and the Museum of Fine Arts, will host a lecture titled 'Piece by Piece: Crazy Quilting and Making Memory in 19th-Century Massachusetts' on October 26. The event, part of the 2026 Lowell Lecture Series, will feature Tenesha Carter Johnson, a curator and cultural historian specializing in American quilt and textile histories. Johnson's presentation will explore how 19th-century women used 'crazy' quilting as a method of creating personal archives, weaving scraps of fabric and keepsakes into intricate mosaics that recorded their lived experiences and memories. The lecture will delve into the significance of the hundreds of hours of labor invested in these quilts and what they reveal about the relationship between memory and material culture. The event is free to the public and will be held in person at Smith Commons, Sargent Hall, Suffolk University, and also available online. 
