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do You remember?
The Quilting Bee
By Bruce Walker @2021
One of the fondest memories of my child- playing with my spinning wood top, as
she took the handkerchief grandma gave
hood on Walker’s Bend, Al was the gather-
ing of women who came to our house for
understanding from her sister quilters gave a
the weekly quilting bee. Hanging from the her. Hugs, affectionate pats, and words of
frame with small nails protruding from it The next week the quilting bee moved over
sacred presence to the gathering.
ceiling in our living room was a large wood
in three-inch intervals, this seemed normal,
didn’t everyone have a hovering spaceship
husband, roy, were an aging couple that had
descending from their roof? On the third to “Aunt Verna’s” house. Verna and her
Tuesday of each month, Mother moved never raised children. She was stitching a
furniture against the walls to make room for quilt from her baby’s dedication gown, worn
the quilting bee. I did not realize it, being when he was 4 weeks old, the baby died
six years old in 1959; I was witnessing a shortly thereafter. This quilt was not made
in sorrow but in hope- Verna passionately
believed she would hold her baby again in
each week the women would gather at a the next chapter of her life; they had wanted
different home and, each week, a differ- more children but to no avail. Instead of
ent story stitched. At one home a quilt was lamenting their situation, Verna and roy ad-
pieced from a husband’s shirt. The lead opted all of us kids on Walker’s Bend as their
quilter, emmy, called this her renewal quilt. own. every (Cont’d)
“My husband wore this shirt when he was
baptized at 55 years of age. The crops, that
year, were failing from lack of rain, the DERBY
mortgage was due, with no means to pay
it, and the bank would not extend the loan.
One evening my husband came in from the
fields with dust caked on his face.” She DANDY
continued, “Albert had not darkened the
door of our church in over 20 years, even DeSSerT TOPPIng & SPreAD
for funerals, he would sit in the pick-up, Great on A Hot Biscuit,
waiting for me. That day he was different, Sweet Breads and more!
he knelt beside our kitchen table, bowed his
head, and prayed, “Oh Lord you know that GrEAT For GrilliNG!
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since my little Mary died. I do not under- igA, (MT. verNON) KY
stand why you took her; you could have ArTiSAN CeNTer,
(BereA) COlleCTOr
prevented that whooping cough outbreak, COiNS ANd Blue-
but I want to make peace with You, I give
up, please send some rain, emmy shows grASS BP
up at church every Sunday and I promise I
(riChMONd)
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he said, “Amen.” Tears filled Emmy’s’ eyes
as she said, “Sure enough, the rains set in, Watch
the crops recovered and with the oversupply
of the harvest, we paid off the loan and, true Our New
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