Red bed and patchwork quilt

Red bed and patchwork quilt
A Visit to Ms. Catherine's House

Hewn Timber
Cabins Home

Ms. Catherine's

Background
on the Cabin

Quick Tour of
Ms. Catherine's

List of
Illustrations

Red bed and patchwork quilt

Frequently, the parent’s bed was beside the fireplace, just as it is here. This bright quilt, made by Ms. Catherine, was the kind that she and her friends made when she lived here.

Photo 1999.

Note: More information available from Amelia Wallace Vernon, African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1993. Reprint. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1995), pp. 56, 59, 60.