Threads of Freedom: Quilting America’s Story

Name: Threads of Freedom: Quilting America’s Story
Start: 2025-10-18T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-18T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Stuhr Museum

Schedule

Sat Oct 18 2025 at 11:00 am to 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Stuhr Museum | Grand Island, NE

This event is free and open to the public. Please, register at NebraskaPublicMedia.org/americanrevolution.
Kick off America’s 250th birthday celebrations with a special event previewing "The American Revolution," the highly anticipated new documentary from Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt.
This open-house-style event will explore the vital role that women and quilting play in stitching our national story from the Revolutionary War through Nebraska’s history and still today.
- Watch excerpts from "The American Revolution," followed by a talkback with Susan Long, an early American History lecturer from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who will bring these pivotal moments to life.
- Previews of The American Revolution will be shown at 11:15am, 12:15 or 1:15pm. All previews are identical.
- Join a hands-on quilting workshop for all ages and skill levels led by members of the Stuhr Museum team and contribute to creating a community quilt in honor of America 250.
- Experience a pop-up exhibit showcasing treasured quilts from the Stuhr Museum's collection and explore their entire campus.
Whether you come for craft, conversation or inspiration, you will leave with a renewed appreciation for the many threads of history that have come together to create America’s story.
Event details:
This free event includes admission to the Stuhr Museum.
Accessibility: Film excerpts will be shown with open captions and the film talkback will have ASL interpretation.
Community Partners:
Presented by Nebraska Public Media and the Stuhr Museum.
About the Film:
"The American Revolution," a six-part, twelve-hour series on America’s founding struggle, will present the story of the men and women of the Revolutionary generation, their humanity in victory and defeat, and the crisis that they lived through. By weaving together accounts of American political leaders and their British counterparts with the perspectives of the so-called ordinary people who waged and witnessed war, "The American Revolution" will be an expansive, evenhanded look at the virtues and the contradictions in the fight for independence and the birth of the United States.
Find more information about this event and film at NebraskaPublicMedia.org/americanrevolution