Crafting local adornments for the Capitol's tree

Kari Petersen, Petersburg Public Library Programming Director, (left) stands alongside Tlingit artist Mary Ann Rainey who led workshops this month at the library for crafters to sew and bead ornaments depicting local animals in Tlingit formline designs. The ornaments are intended to adorn the Capitol Christmas Tree in Washington D.C. The tree will be harvested from the Wrangell Ranger District in late October and its cross country journey to D.C. is expected to take around two weeks. This year will be only the second time that an Alaskan tree has been used as the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree....

 

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