My sister called me the day this aired, the Joseph the woman is referring to here, was the son to Madeline and Joseph Laframboise of Mackinac Island. Madeline was my 6th great aunt. I have been trying to contact the show to get information or pictures, and they aren't helping at all. I even wrote them so I could buy a copy of the whole set of tapes they made in MN and just got their reply back today: Thanks for writing to shop.wgbh.org! At this time there are no plans to release the program you refer to on video or DVD. Antiques Roadshow no longer distributes their programs on VHS or DVD Thanks again for your inquiry and for your generous support of WGBH. Best regards, Your friends at shop.wgbh.org Did anyone possibly catch this show on tape? I am willing to pay for a copy of it if you did. Did anyone get pictures of this? I missed the show and didn't get to see it and am wanting to badly. I was lucky, as when the 97 year old man who owned Madeline's house had it for sale, he gave me a tour of it. This was prior to it becoming a bed and breakfast. When they turned it over to the B&B they destroyed it...I just wish I wouldn't have missed that show...Can anyone give a hand? Thanks...and thanks for the name and article RD...I didn't even have that much.. Cindy -------Original Message------- From: RDWinthrop Date: 01/21/05 11:11:49 To: NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NISHNAWBE] LaFRAMBOISE blanket on "Antiques Roadshow" "'A Family Treasure Beyond Measure; Blanket A 'Roadshow' Hit" Star Tribune (Minneapolis MN), January 19, 2005 "As soon as she heard the words 'national treasure' and the number '$60,000 -or more,' Rita Joerg of Preston, Minn., knew where to store her great-great-grandmother's handwork: in a bank safe-deposit box. Joerg said Tuesday she took the beadwork to the St. Paul filming of the 'Antiques Roadshow' and learned, much to her amazement, that it's a museum-quality Dakota woman's dance blanket, used in ceremonies in the 1800s. Her great-great-grandmother, Jane Dickson LaFRAMBOISE, who was three-quarters Dakota and Ojibwe and one-quarter white, made it in about the 1840s of tiny beads and ribbons, all imported from England as trade goods. Because the blanket was made about the time she married Joseph LaFRAMBOISE, an interpreter to the Dakota and Ojibwe Indians in Minnesota, it's possible that the bride made the dance blanket for her 1845 wedding, considered the first Christian marriage in Nicollet County. Recent generations have had no idea of its value or even its use. They called it a table cover. Joerg said it was stored and sometimes displayed at the Sleepy Eye MN library from 1940 to 1972, but with no hint it was so valuable. After that it was in her mother's cedar chest and later in the cedar chest of Joerg's sister, Diane Arndt of Fairfax MN. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx