Mrs. Gunn's Diary: Jan. 23, 1942

She brings a family heirloom to a Red Cross benefit and gets an air raid booklet

The war was very much on Mrs. Gunn’s mind on this spring-like winter day. “This afternoon I took my great Aunt Mollie’s mother’s double coverlet to Mrs. John’s house as she had an exhibit of old fashioned coverlets for the benefit of the Red Cross,” she wrote. She got many compliments on the blue and white coverlet, “made about 1844.”

I wonder if it was as fine as this Starburst quilt from the collection of the Daughters of the American Revolution, made by Elizabeth Ann Darst Bierce (1818-1901)?

Mrs. Gunn also obtained a copy of the booklet “You and an Air Raid.” Paid subscribers can read on about how civilians were being educated about survival if worse came to worst.