RACHEL FIELD and HITTY

Hitty City

Hitty Cranberry and Hitty Diane
Donated by the HittyGirls Yahoo Group

17 May 2007

Sue Glidden (known as 'Sue in Maine' on the internet) delivered and installed a wonderful collection of Hittys and Hitty items to the GCI Historical Society's museum on 17 May.

 
Hitty Cranberry (left) and Hitty Diane (right)

The gift was a memorial for Diane Barrow-Clark, a well-known Hitty collector and carver, who posted eagerly-anticipated stories to the "HittyGirls" Yahoo group about her dolls' adventures running the "Lake Thonotosassa Boarding School."  Diane passed away 5 Sept. 2006.

The donation also included a beautiful cloth-bound Memorial Book showing many of the Hittys in Diane's collection, and also the individual items donated in her honor to the GCIHS museum.

Diane must have been well-loved because at least 27 people pitched in, donating an extravaganza of gifts in her memory:

Name	Donation
Kathy Baxter	Cape
Pipah Bradshaw (from Wales)	Welsh costume
Nancy Brennan	Table cloth Folk bowls Egg on plate Flowers
Louise "Wizzy" Brooks	Blue wooden bench
Elise Buhn	Undergarments Dress
Celia Caldwell	Monkey and basket of goodies
Julie DeGroat	Photo challenge book
Michelle delValle	Painting "Hitty Diane"
Karen Dietrich	Knitting basket
Susan Duncan	HittyGirls & "Hitty4Everyone" name tags for the Hittys
Jane Evans	Cape and bonnet
DMarie Ewing	Quaker dress and dress forms
Sue Glidden	Doll house Quilt Rack Memorial Book compiling
Trudy Glidden	Cloth covered scrapbook
Fung Hicks	Sampler dress
Tom Hindes	Wooden trunk
Sharon Horswill	Ship in bottle Potted plant Puppy
Jill Hunter	Embroidered Hitty pillow
Elaine Jackson	Log cabin quilt with stitched word "Hitty"
Michelle Kirby	Granny square afghan Braided rug
Pauline Nissan	Dress and bonnet
Nancy Schaub	Sleigh bed Persian rug Wooden table
Nancy Schell	cloth "Hitty Cranberry" and accessories
Dawn Spinney	Blue knitted scarf
Pat Thompson	Beaded handbag
TC Vollum	carving "Hitty Diane"
Sylvia Ybarra	Hitty travel trunk

All the donations, in the doll house

Hitty Cranberry and Hitty Diane (from HittyGirls) and Hitty Willow Thompson (from HittyforEveryone) were donated to us about the same time, all to honor the memory of Diane Barrow-Clark.