Lenice Dennis and Dot Harris show off one of Ellen Goodwi's quilts, who brought several family quilts to share during her presentation, using them to highlight how quilts preserve memory and history across generations PHOTO BY JEFF HURT
Quilts, Ellen Goodwin told a gathering of DAR and DKG members last week, are not just fabric — they are family memory you can hold in your hands. Her program at Rotan Methodist Church traced the craft from unfinished projects in her own attic to a Texas quilt mentioned in a will dated 1779.
