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She Stitched the Stars: A Story of Ellen Harding Baker's Solar System Quilt
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At a time when girls and women were supposed to limit their worlds to home, one mother looked beyond—to space.
In 1876 Ellen Harding Baker began stitching an extraordinary quilt, one that accurately depicted our solar system. Ellen, a Iowa storekeeper's wife and a mother, had a curiosity that reached far beyond the stratosphere. Today the quilt hangs in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. This lyrical story imagines the creation of the quilt from the perspective of Ellen’s...