Over the years, I’ve rescued old quilts from yard sales and stored them in my closet. Too worn out to display, but I feel protective of them. Someone spent hours, days, weeks even, sewing those pieces together to make a quilt top and then quilting and binding it. It was colorful o...
In addition to the defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the center of the Southern line had caved. After hard fighting, nearly all of Tennessee was now held by the Union troops. But even with this loss on the top of the others, the South’s spirit was not broken. True, grim ...
Uncle Peter, muffled in a quilt, was bringing out the carriage to take Ashley to the train. Ashley said "Good-by" very softly, caught up from the table the wide felt hat she had inveigled from Rhett and walked into the dark front hall. His hand on the door knob, he turned and ...