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  • Quilts for a Cause

    Quilts for a Cause

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    “Gun Boat Quilt” was a term given to the raffle quilts made by southern women in order to finance the building of gun boats needed during the Civil War to protect the ports of the southern states and the shipping lanes in and out of southern harbors. This is part of the story.

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Nancy Beckworth Harris
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The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne were celebrated literary figures renowned for their timeless novels. Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights,” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,” reached the public, but other siblings never had the chance to make their mark on 19th century England. The Brontë’s lived and died in a time when disease and poverty spared no one the agony of the human condition.

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