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2. Bedding ceremony - Wikipedia

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   The bedding ceremony refers to the wedding custom of putting the newlywed couple together in the marital bed in front of numerous witnesses, usually family, friends, and neighbors, thereby completing the marriage. The purpose of the ritual was to establish the consummation of the marriage, either by actually witnessing the couple's first sexual ...

3. Jane Stickle - Wikipedia

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   Jane A. Blakeley was born in Shaftsbury, Vermont on April 8, 1817. She married on 29 October 1844, Walter Stickle and together they took in at least three local children. [2] [3] The couple lived in Shaftsbury throughout their marriage, and with Jane's brother, Erasatus Blakely, owned several farms and tracts of land.

4. Vermont Country Store - Wikipedia

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   Manchester. Area served. Weston, Rockingham, North Clarendon, near Rutland (distribution facility and customer service center) Website. www .vermontcountrystore .com. The Vermont Country Store, Inc. is an American catalog, retail, and e-commerce business based in Vermont. The company was established in 1946 and is operated by the Orton family.

5. History of quilting - Wikipedia

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   Quilting became a favoured activity of the Anabaptist sect after emigrating to the United States and Canada from Germany and Switzerland over 250 years ago. The earliest known Amish quilts, dating from 1849, are whole-cloth works in solid colours. Pattern-pieced bed coverings didn't appear until the 1870s.

6. Mildred Ellen Orton - Wikipedia

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   Mildred Ellen Orton (née Wilcox; February 9, 1911 – May 6, 2010) was an American businesswoman and author who co-founded the Vermont Country Store with her husband, Vrest Orton, in Weston, Vermont, in 1946. Biography. Orton was born at a farm near Manchester, Vermont, on February 9, 1911.

7. Bedding - Wikipedia

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   Bedding, also called bedclothes[ 1] or bed linen, is the materials laid above the mattress of a bed for hygiene, warmth, protection of the mattress, and decorative effect. Bedding is the removable and washable portion of a human sleeping environment. Multiple sets of bedding for each bed are often washed in rotation and/or changed seasonally to ...