Mary Pulsifer
Rumford quilting group makes sleeping bags for homeless youth
RUMFORD — Volunteers from River Valley spent Thursday morning assembling several sleeping bags from recycled or repurposed materials for homeless teens. Mary Pulsifer of Peru and several others crafted the bags to give to Mountain Valley High School. “Sometimes, homeless doesn’t mean that someone is literally without a home,” she said. “Some people couch-surf, and […]
Peru women build a community of ‘fairy houses’ for residents
PERU — There’s an old logging trail behind Mary Pulsifer’s house that leads from her backyard to Greenwoods Road. Lining the trail are more than 300 fairy houses. Fairy houses are small houses built using natural materials, such as sticks, bark, grass, pebbles, feathers and pine cones, Pulsifer said. “The whole story behind fairy houses […]
Local quilting group to donate quilts to local, national groups
RUMFORD — A local quilting group is attempting to pay it forward by donating hand-crafted quilts to several different groups, including an Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The Rumford Area Quilters, a quilting group that meets once a month, attempt to donate as many quilts as they can “at least once or twice a year,” […]