My grandmother Emma Becker Gochenour called it 'gallavanting'. She and her girlfriends from the North Tonawanda Baptist Church loved to spend a day wandering around Ontario or New York.
On our trip we took Van Dyke road north into the countryside, through Romeo and Almont to Imlay City. I went to four quilt shops to pick up their Row By Row patterns and then we went east and searched for the Lynn Township Cemetery to see my husband's mother's ancestors. (That's another post.)
Almont was having it's Homecoming Day which is held every five years. The downtown businesses had quilts hanging in the windows. We stopped to see them. The photos are not great because of the window reflections. It seems that Stitchin at the Barn was associated with some of the quilts.
I learned that Almont is the sixth oldest village in the state of Michigan!
The quilt shops I visited included Shelby Township's Decorative Stitch, Quilted Nine Patch in Bruce Twp, and Stitchin' at the Barn, and the Pincushion in Imlay City. Each shop offered something different than I had seen before.
On the way home we picked up sweet corn, $4.50 for a dozen huge ears. We had it for dinner and it was like eating pure sugar!
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