Picturing a Home

When I visit her home in my daydreams, the front door has just barely clicked shut and the floorboards still remember her footsteps. A cigarette smolders in an ashtray by a blue couch and a window has been opened to let air in. I like to imagine she’s just left to go to a concert, red lipped and perfumed, but perhaps she is on a walk along the river that runs through the property, thinking of a poem. She could be anywhere, doing anything, but she is never there.

N.C. quilters stitch together stories of justice, resilience and community

Every quilt has a story to tell, even if they aren’t immediately apparent, Diana Bell-Kite, the curator of textiles and clothing at the North Carolina Museum of History, said.

“Quilting is a way to access so many stories of so many different women through one type of textile,” she said.