In yesterday's (June 28, 2014) Montgomery Advertiser an Associated Press article by Katherine Roth was in the "My Life" section, titled "Textiles convey complexity of the Civil War".The article described what I blogged about on June 17 - the exhibit [...]
As many know our Gunboat Quilt has been in a traveling exhibit since 2011 called "Homefront and Battlefield: Quilts and Context in the Civil War", organized by the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts. The exhibit is on view in the [...]
Our friend and tour guide from the Second White House in Richmond, Conway Moncure was in Montgomery recently, and we discussed the tragic loss of Jefferson Davis's son, Joseph, who died from a fall outside the Presidential Mansion in Richmond in 1864.As [...]
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 marked Jefferson Davis's 206th birthday at the First White House of the Confederacy. A good crowd attended the 11:00 am speech and celebration honoring the first and only President of the Confederate States of America. As most readers [...]