Handmade blankets welcome refugees immigrants to US

Handmade blankets welcome refugees immigrants to US
BURLINGTON, Vt. — “Welcome to the USA,” says a note attached to a hand-crocheted blanket of purple, white and gray stripes. Hollie Shaner-McRae, of Burlington, who made the blanket as a gift for a refugee, wrote of her great-grandparents coming to the United States from Ukraine, Russia and Poland. One great-grandfather was a tailor and the other was a barrel maker, she wrote. “Both were so brave and came to America as teenagers,” Shaner-McRae wrote to whomever would receive the blanket. “I hope you make friends and feel safe here. Vermont is blessed to have new families arrive and enrich…

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