Some years ago, someone gave me a gift as I was leaving my work: a family patchwork quilt, handed down in her family for years. When I asked why she was so generous she replied simply that she had ...

There are those of us who can’t mix a batch of lye soap, complete a quilt using the tack tie method or weave straw into an intricate basket.Up in Wears Valley at the Coalition for Appalachian Ministry ...