Quilty Treasures
May 04, 2022
2 minutes
Seeing stars
The best teachers often use interesting and novel methods to help their students learn. In 1876, when Ellen Harding Baker was teaching astronomy, she employed a unique approach: she made a quilt.
Baker was born in Ohio in 1847. She married at the age of 20 and gave birth to seven children, before dying of tuberculosis in 1886. She was also an
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