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Globe stories:
Photo galleries:
Scenes from Gee's Bend, Alabama
Meet the quilt makers
Audio links:
Arlonzia Pettway's poem
Read the poem
- Audio clips courtesy of "How We Got Over: Sacred Songs of Gee's Bend" (Tinwood Media).
QUILT BY ARLONZIA PETTWAY, 1965
"Once, I went to Selma and a lady in a factory gave me a bag of flaps that go over men's pants pockets. I took them flaps and ripped them open, just like that. It took me a whole day and a half to rip those flaps open. I went to sewing them together in nine, 10 rows, like corn rows, and I made a quilt. I needed to make some quilts because I was in a big family. I had 10 children, and I need to make the children warm."
(Globe Staff Photo / Michele McDonald)
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