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When I think of the 20's I think of being taught about the "gilded age." How the parties and economic growth of the rich shadowed the difficulties of the poor and working class. Arts and Architecture, because of all classes, were able to experience exciting changes. I attended University in a town that is a ghost of these many stories from that era. Stained glass, mosaics, and building facades and ornamentation inspired many of my own works, including this quilt. Some of the finials on the buildings very much looked like Cleopatra's fan but the towns people Decatur said that the original architects were inspired by the surrounding cornfields, so I tried to honor that by making the center of the fan gold like the corn.