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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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George Miller
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The Sea of Matrimony can be a calm sea and pleasant voyage, it may also be a tempest. Either way there are postcards.

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