The Quilt Fiction Podcast
Summary: The Quilting Life on the Written Page, as read to you by award-winning author Frances O'Roark Dowell (Birds in the Air, Margaret Goes Modern, Dovey Coe, Shooting the Moon). In Season One, Friendship Album, 1933, tells a heart-warming story of strangers brought together by quilting and made into family. In Season Two, Dowell reads Aunt Jane of Kentucky by Eliza Calvert Hall. First published in 1907 and set in rural western Kentucky in the late nineteenth century, the book recounts an elderly quilt-maker Aunt Jane’s memories of life in the rural south as told to an unnamed younger woman visitor. The book was hugely popular in its time, reaching over a million readers, and President Theodore Roosevelt was one of Aunt Jane’s biggest fans.
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- Artist: Frances O'Roark Dowell
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Podcasts:
Florence recalls the first time Arthur proposed and the couple ponders a potential future together.
The Wednesday bee expands as Bess ponders whether the time has come for a new beginning.
Eula passes down kitchen advice to her new daughter-in-law and finally gets the news she's been waiting for.
Emmeline receives an unexpected offer while mulling over the latest news from Florence.
Dorothy tries to keep her temper around her stubborn son-in-law -- and discovers an unlikely ally in the process.
Florence tries her hand at pie-making and makes an unlikely ally in the process.
Father Joe makes Bess an offer she may not be able to refuse.
Eula gets a visit from an old friend and wonders if her farm dreams will ever come true.
Emmeline travels to her hometown to meet her quilting idol.
Dorothy, worried about what the future holds for her family, opens the door to an unexpected visitor.
Florence finally catches up on her stitching in a hotel room in Emporia, Kansas, as she dreams of her business back in Milton Falls.
Bess makes a formidable new friend.
Eula learns the fate of her Sears Contest quilt.
When Emmeline Grangerfield sets out to make Christmas merry and bright for a group of orphans, things quickly spiral out of control. Will help arrive in time to revive her holiday spirit? It will be up to the quilters of Depression-era Milton Falls, Ohio, to find time for the true meaning of Christmas during the busiest season of the year.
Emmeline learns the fate of her Sears Contest quilt and hatches a new plan to put her back on the path to quilting fame and fortune.
