Top 10 Stories of 2012
As 2013 kicks off, we wanted to take a moment to remember 2012 and recap some of our most popular stories and features.
Literary Friday
A Twitter chat this afternoon. Reading Up on Gee's Bend. Inside the App: Literary Tours. An Award in Honor of Ernest Gaines. 'The Lucky One' in Theaters. And New Content in Southern Voice. It's Literary Friday!
The Future of Gee’s Bend
In 2002, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, presented an exhibition of 70 quilts from Gee’s Bend, Alabama. The story goes that art collector William Arnett came across a photograph of one of the quilts while working on a history of African American vernacular art. He set out to find the quilt, and its maker, and arrived in Gee’s Bend. Arnett ultimately introduced the women of Gee's Bend and their quilts to the world, but not many people have actually visited the source. Recently, a group of Auburn architecture students and community leaders from Gee's Bend set out to change that.