Narrator, Nancy Houfek. Originally produced as motion picture in 1987. Companion book is also available: Hearts and hands : the influence of women & quilts on American society / concept by Pat Ferrero.
Summary:
A film in which the primary materials of women's lives - diaries, letters, photographs, and quilts - are pieced together to tell a story of nineteenth century women from New England, the South, the Midwest, and the West.
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