Lebanon's Woven Coverlet

1  'Twas a few days before Christmas... The table was filled and lit by warm candlelight

2  Sugar cookies, Russian tea cakes and people chow... Hot coffee and tea all make a beautiful sight

3  The Christmas table...

4  the mantle, the entire house, all decorated with warmth and care... In hopes the beautiful jacquard woven coverlet would soon be there

5  Mary and Giff Jones come all the way down from Seattle... Their bag filled with Lebanon's history and narry a rattle
(Guess that's enough of that!)

6  Giff and Peggy place coverlet on sheet on couch

7  Guests watch Giff adjust the coverlet... Jerry and Noel (Moist) Storms, Ray Weldon, Pat Dunn and Denise Lee

8  Peggy arranges the other end a bit

9  Peggy and Jerry view the design up close

10  Peggy starts looking for weaver's name

11  Giff suggests some of the border is missing on this side... Peggy, Mary and Noel agree

12  Ellie Bear finds a new friend... Denise gives her a bit of love

People of Lebanon, Oregon

Come to receive this bit of heritage and welcome it home again...

Pat Dunn...

Hard working Lebanon researcher in history, historic resources, genealogy, library volunteer, cemetery care, Lebanon Museum and much more

Denise Lee...

Lebanon City Librarian...
Offering to display this coverlet in the new Library in July 2009

Ray Weldon...

Representing the Scroggin's Mill Rural Heritage Foundation & the Lebanon City Council

Please enjoy a snowball, a cookie or two, some people chow and a cup of hot tea before you go...
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."
      From "A Visit from St. Nicholas;" also known as "The Night Before Christmas." Originally published, anonymously, on December 23, 1823 in the Troy, New York Sentinel. Later it was acknowledged to be written by Professor Clement C. Moore.
      So the poem and this bit of Lebanon heritage may have been from the same era.

Moist family, B&B hosts and

B&B guest/photographer come to the ceremony & accept the gift of history...

Noel (Moist) Storms...

with her husband Jerry, representing the descendants of Joseph Moist who come west over the Oregon Trail in 1845

Peggy Christopherson...

B&B host, head cook & master and very, very hard worker, plus a quilter

Sam Bauman, photographer...

Sam & his wife Becky were B&B guests. Sam Bauman took these fine photographs of the ceremony. Sam, Director of Marketing, Maresh Red Barn Wine Tasting Room in Dundee, and his wife, Becky, Deli Manager at Roth's Fresh Market in Lebanon, were B&B guests as a result of the terrible winter weather up north.