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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
A Quilt with a Burden
Ann Sloan Lowrie Knox, quilt, 1861 to 1865. Now in the North Carolina Museum of History, where I saw it yesterday. Mrs. Knox made this quilt with scraps of fabric from clothes she sewed for her seven sons, five of whom died in the Civil War.
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John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
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