On this day in 1958, American banjo player Béla Anton Leoš Fleck was born in New York City. “Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s most innovative and technically proficient banjo players,he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.” (Wikepedia)
Belah Beatrice Sumrell of Ayden, North Carolina, finished this Dresden Plate quilt in 1952. From this Quilt Index record:
Mother had given the unquilted top to a cousin and she gave it to me; Finished in 1952, probably was in the making for a few years, Scraps from making clothing, feed sacks, Made other quilts, VA, DC, GA and WA; Children: Reginald, Marion, Winifred, Alene, Billy, Grace.
Sumrell’s daughter documented the quilt in 1985 as part of the North Carolina Quilt Project.
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Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Fleck
Posted by Amy E. Milne
Executive Director, Quilt Alliance
amy.milne@quiltalliance.org