Rugger’s craft

By 1940 I began to realize that teachers were having problems too. They needed help, and since the revival of this craft was, so to speak, in its infancy, there were too few places for them to turn for help.

I gave this teacher problem a great deal of thought and decided that by sharing their problems with each other it would be mutually beneficial. I could do my part too, in suggest ing and guiding and discussing. Discussion was the thing! Let them bring their rugs to a group meeting and let us have a friendly discussion about them.

Why not an exhibit of finished rugs? You can see how one thought led to another, and thus, the Teachers' Annual Exhibit was born, with a full day to discuss our common problems before the Exhibit was opened to the public.

The first two were held at the historic Old Colonial Inn, in Concord, Massachusetts, and the third one in the Copley Plaza Hotel, in Boston. By 1943, because we were at war and the gasoline shortage made traveling practically impossible, we chose Horticultural Hall, in Worcester, Massachusetts.