This Quilt Tells One Familys Story with Phyllis Elmore

Published: Aug. 27, 2021, midnight

b"Join Hosts\\xa0Janice\\xa0and\\xa0Cherekana of\\xa0Speak On It\\xa0!\\xa0as they discuss\\xa0Phyllis Elmore's family history.\\n\\n\\n\\tPhyllis was born in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of four, she was sent to the tiny town of Livingston, Alabama to be raised by her grandmother Lula Horn (1883-1988), who made beautiful quilts out of the clothing of her loved ones. Each strip of fabric tells the story of the wearer\\u2019s life and death. She shared these mostly tragic and sometimes witty tales with little Phyllis as she sewed their clothes into a quilt that threaded broken lives back together. Phyllis\\xa0now shares these profound stories with the world as Grandmother Lula told them to her."