GLIN==> Press release: Circles & Wheels Theme for 2010 Great Lakes Seaway Trail America's Byway Quilt Show

PRESS RELEASE:  June 26, 2009
Contact:   Teresa Mitchell, 315-646-1000
Jpgs of past show winners available by request
 
Circles & Wheels Theme for Great Lakes Seaway Trail America¹s Byway 2010
Quilt Show & Challenge
 
Sackets Harbor, NY ­ Appropriately, the theme of the 2010 Great Lakes Seaway
Trail Quilt Show & Challenge will be Circles and Wheels on the Byway. The
Great Lakes Seaway Trail is one of America¹s Byways, designated by the
Federal Highway Administration as destinations for authentic American
experiences. 

The nonprofit organization that promotes travel along the freshwater
shoreline of the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River and Lake
Erie in New York and Pennsylvania hosts an annual quilt event at its Great
Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, NY. Great Lakes
Seaway Trail Foundation Chair Pope Vickers says, ³This quilt show is unlike
any other in the region because it brings together quilting, artistry and
the travel experience that is unique to the Great Lake Seaway Trail. For the
2010 show, we especially encourage new quilt artists to enter with a
wallhanging or quilt as a way to engage the spirit of this show.²
 
The annual show that includes a challenge competition focused on a different
theme associated with the byway fills the three floors and nine rooms of the
Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center that was built with native
limestone in 1817 as the Union Hotel.
 
Quilters from across the U.S. and Canada have sent works for display or
competition. Quilts and wallhangings of all sizes are accepted. There will
be Viewer¹s Choice balloting for cash prizes with a special prize for the
best depiction of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail travel experience as
represented using the wheels and circles theme.

The show also features demonstrators, vendors, and an exhibit by the Orleans
County Country Barn Quilt Trail, a 22-mile loop tour off the Great Lakes
Seaway Trail byway to see more than 40 barns painted with quilt block
patterns. 
 
Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show & Challenge rules and guidelines are
posted online at www.seawaytrail.com.

For those looking ahead, the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, much of
which was fought along the strategic waters of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail,
will make the year 1812 the theme of the 2012 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt
Show & Challenge. 
 
The 2011 show theme is expected to focus on the ³Iconic Destinations² of the
Great Lakes Seaway Trail. The freshwater byway includes Niagara Falls, the
1000 Islands region of New York State, and many notably unique American and
Great Lakes attractions.
 
The Great Lakes Seaway Trail also connects with the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio
Trail national scenic byway and Michigan and Ontario highways to form the
Lake Erie Circle Tour.
 
The Great Lakes Seaway Trail and Canada¹s Waterfront Trail circle Lake
Ontario. The Waterfront Trail for pedestrians, bicyclists and roller-bladers
from Niagara on the Lake, Ontario to the Ontario-Quebec border connects to
the Great Lakes Seaway Trail via 7 international bridges crossing the
Niagara River and St. Lawrence River.
 
The quilting tradition is a popular cultural and arts heritage travel theme
for the Great Lakes Seaway Trail which has clusters of Mennonite and Amish
quilters, particularly in the Chautauqua and St. Lawrence County regions of
the byway.
 
For more information on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, its quilt shows, and
travel themes ­ nature, birdwatching, shipwrecks, freshwater scuba diving,
water-based recreation, architecture, coastal agriculture, maritime and
military historyŠ  go online to www.seawaytrail.com or call 315-646-1000. #


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