October 25, 2026
Tag: Jane Frances Arlington
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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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February 17, 2022 4 Comments
Three sisters wait helplessly in their houseboat community of Little Oklahoma near N. St. Louis as the Mississippi River flood of 1903 engulfs their home and washes away most of their belongings. Desperation, personified!!