Jackson College Heritage Center

Our Mackenzie visited us today in the Heritage Center. She is one of our founding members and an alumni of Jackson College. She led the charge on many of our projects and now she is coming back to interact with our new students and to continue the good work of telling stories of Jackson heroes,

Our Olivia came and worked on our third quilt. She is so fabulous and reminds us of Mackenzie. Both demonstrate leadership and kindness and dedication and consistency.

Barb Markowski is so kind and she is teaching with young women the art of quilting and sewing with patients and love. ❤️

We have many photos of these fabulous women working hard today, but if I share them, it would expose the beautiful quilts we are making, and we want to keep that a secret until we do our big reveal.

Please keep watching and commenting and sharing and supporting these beautiful students as they tell the stories of those who came before.

We accomplished much today in the HC! Look at our beautiful volunteer students working away on their individual tasks that our fabulous Barb Markowski put forth. More and more the beautiful quilts are coming to life. Dr. Crockett’s family is our focus with special attention paid to five strong women.
I’ll keep you posted!

We had visitors today at the Heritage Center. Mr. Matt Walsh and Dr. Altrice Brown stopped by to say hello to the students and to see our fabulous project. Our Asa brought her friend Alex, and we quickly adopted him into our group. Sofia brought our Jasmine. … we have missed her very much. .

It was such a beautiful day….. We are almost done with the first quilt.. each one will be different and will be a testimony to the strong women who faced hardship and trials…. who never gave up… and who were fierce in their love of family and drive to make the world a better place.

Such a fine team we have working on our Dr. Crockett project! Their creativity is off the charts and the respect they have for the story is touching.
We will keep posting our progress as we go.
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Thank you for encouraging these beautiful young people!

What a beautiful evening! Our very own Emily Mast received the Zennith Pond recognition at our Honors Banquet this evening. This is an appropriate award for our Emily as she was one of our early leaders in the Heritage Center! Her list of accomplishments are a testimony to her giving heart. She is an academic powerhouse and the best of the best in all she does.

It has been my great honor to watch this beautiful young lady grow from a teenager to a confident lieader in our county and our state.

I’m looking forward to seeing the next chapters in her life…. What an honor it’s been knowing her and working alongside her.

And our new Writing Fellows were gracious enough to come and help honor their alumni!

And very importantly, we had the Pond family and the Crockett family visit our heritage center… all in all it was a fabulous night!

Once again, we made great progress! Love, love, love the dedication and consistency of our beautiful volunteer students!

We made some great progress on our Dr. Crockett Project today. Barb showed one of the students how to embroider and some students designed the primitive characters for quilt number one and other students did the miserable job of cutting out teeny we**ie letters.
It was a great day in the HC!

Look at our beautiful students at the Cascades Museum! We love that little Museum and the people who take care of it so lovingly at the Cascades Falls. Our students learn stewardship and citizenry as they review what others have done before us.

I’ve included a sample of some of the walls at the little museum…. Please visit there this summer.. it’s a true gem in the state of Michigan!

We love Barb Markowski! She comes to spend her afternoons with our beautiful volunteer students! Our students have jobs and they’re on sports teams and they’re taking classes that demand focus, and yet they give what little free time they have to create this beautiful project for the Crockett family. What a fabulous team.!

We will start taking pictures of the other members of our team the other days that they come…. Stay tuned as our project and folds.!