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montgomeryadvertiser.com on 2022-10-14 04:01

The Airing of the Quilts: Boykin quilters celebrate centuries of tradition

Women in the Gee’s Bend started quilting out of necessity while enslaved on a nearby cotton plantation in the 1800s. The tradition carries on.

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