Tag: American

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Well it’s quilt show and festival time around the world it seems, and here is the USA it’s no different. I work part-time as an educator for one of the largest sewing machine dealerships on the east coast and get to attend a few and help man (or woman) the stand. It is a lot…

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I have been fascinated by the story of the American Underground Railway since reading Colson Whitehead’s book ‘The Underground Railway’, in which he tells of a young slave, Cora, and her treacherous journey North to freedom. Whilst fiction, Whitehead gives us lots of information about the ‘safe’ houses used by the herioine, and the roads…