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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Item Title
Mabel Brown, Jenny Bonds, Nancy Miller, and Sadie Miller, at their weekly quilting bee in Brown's Hollow. [Photo]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Eiler, Lyntha Scott
Created/Published
September 26, 1995
Notes
Each Tuesday morning from September through May, a number of women on Drews Creek get together to quilt. Sometimes they quilt at the Ramp House, a community center at the head of Drews Creek across from the Delbert Free Will Baptist Church, to which most of the women belong. Many of the tops are pieced by the women on request, and they produce a number of quilts each year for sale at the annual Pine Knob Ramp Supper. As they quilt, the women catch up on news of the community, which often includes information about what's coming up in the gardens and in the woods.
Event: Quilting Bee.
Subjects
Fall
September
Quilting
Community events
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Brown Hollow
Drews Creek
Object Type
Related Names
Depicted: Jarrell, Nancy
Depicted: Bonds, Jenny
Depicted: Brown, Mabel
Depicted: Miller, Sadie
Medium
35 mm Color Slide
Language
English
Call Number
CRF-LE-C005-01
Part of
The Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afccmns lec00501
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.lec00501