News Release

GOSHEN — A new exhibit, “A Cabinet of Curiosities 3: Quilts, Clocks, Ceramics and Fraktur” will open in the Good Library Gallery, located in the Harold and Wilma Good Library on Sunday, March 5 through Sunday, Nov. 12.

Photo provided by Goshen College.

The public reception will take place from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, March 12. At 2:30 p.m. during the public reception, Arlin Claassen, a horologist, will comment on the Kroeger “wag-on-the-wall” clock brought to North America by Mennonite immigrants from Ukraine in the 1870s.

The exhibit offers a colorful variety of Mennonite and Amish items recently accessioned for the Mennonite Historical Library collection, and exhibited at Goshen College for the first time.

Of special interest are diamond-in-the-square quilts from Pennsylvania; ceramics by Hutterites/Habaner in Slovakia and by the Mennonite-owned Makkum pottery in Holland; a tall case clock from Belleville, Pennsylvania, and a Kroeger clock from Ukraine.

Quilts from Michiana include an intricate trip-around-the-world (1936) by Caroline Hostetler Yoder from Middlebury and the original sampler quilt (2002) for the “Women of the Bible” devotional programs by Carol Honderich of Elkhart.

“Cabinet of curiosities” was the original name in English for a museum. It was a room (“cabinet”) that contained a family’s miscellaneous collection of special items, including fossils, botanical and zoological specimens, antiquities, mementos, folk and fine art.

The Good Library Gallery is open whenever the Library is open. See library hours.