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PBS’s Craft in America: Industry — Handmade in the Creative Economy
Posted by Linda Armstrong Ploehn - BY MARY THOMAS BLOCK NEWS ALLIANCE published in the Toledo Blade 5/02/2014 and 'Deep South Magazine' on 2nd May 2014
We crafters/quilters know that you can make a living in either of these categories. Check your local listing on PBS for this show that connects the common thread between 'African-American women who live in traditional rural Alabama and a middle-aged white man who lives in counter-culture San Francisco'!
Read more at http://www.toledoblade.com/TV-Radio/2014/05/02/Crafting-a-living-in-the-U-S-1.html#A5Jk1CLsDcDDLBuS.99
You might also enjoy the history of Gee's Bend Collective where 'Quilts are its trademark, but the legacy of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, will be its food, culture and way of life.' (story in Deep South Magazine)
http://deepsouthmag.com/2012/04/the-future-of-gees...
Gee’s Bend’s annual May Day Festival will take place the first Saturday in May, tomorrow. Makes me want to take a 'road trip'!