Quilters

Quilters, by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek, with music and lyrics by Barbara Damashek is the musical story of a pioneer woman and her six daughters. It blends a series of inter-related stories into a rich mosaic that captures the sweep and beauty, the terror and joy, the harsh challenge and abiding rewards of frontier life. Illuminating stories contained in various patches or “blocks” with music, dance and drama, the action depicts the lot of women in the frontier: girlhood, marriage, childbirth, spinsterhood, twisters, fire, illness and death.