Annaquilts and Jillnjo - what wonderful quilts! I just love them!
Mamaskeeto, your mention of Ellis Island prodded an interesting memory back to life. I think that everyone who went through there arrived either by steerage or third class. After listening to all the "when I was a little girl" stories from my mom (you know - walking 150 miles to school, eating shoe leather soup) I wanted to get her name on the commemorative wall when they were re-opening. She said, "Oh no. We didn't come through Ellis Island. We had a cabin." What???!!!! Seriously??? Kinda blew those "I had to sleep in a suitcase" stories out of the water.