July 27, 2024
Tag: quilts for a cause
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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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March 22, 2021 2 Comments
Americans. Canadians. We are so much alike. We live in the same kind of homes, we eat the same foods, we drive the same cars, we shop in the same stores, we have even fought the same wars. Change the address on any one of these stories and it would make the same history. Curious history!