July 27, 2024
Tag: Shenandoah Postcard Show
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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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May 9, 2024 7 Comments
This story is about a cave exploration that went horribly wrong. The news of Floyd Collins’s plight spread quickly, and a rescue operation was launched but failed despite the best efforts of many. Collins was never freed from the cave, and died from exposure and starvation, but he wasn’t the only victim of this calamity.