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This is 2006 when we found Dianne's childhood home, long since abandoned, way way back in the thick woods. Dianne salvaged a priceless chair, an old quilt, and many happy memories of childhood.
L-R: cousins Joyce, Dianne, Robert, Tom
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Robert Butler posted a condolence
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
We found the ruins of cousin Dianne's childhood home, deep in the woods, I suspect the original part of it was a slave cabin, owing to its construction. Dianne found a priceless old chair and a quilt. I wrote this to commemorate the finding of the quilt:
The Old Powhatan Quilt
I was stitched together over many a year by the hands of many women, all in the same family. Old feed bags are at my center. Scraps of old clothes surround the feed bags. I have life, and generations, and history, all woven into me. I tell a story, and I connect people across the years.
As the ancient, ramshackle house in which I lived was abandoned, I was shut into a trunk, perhaps to be retrieved later, but then forgotten. The woods started to reclaim the generations-old house, blanketing its dry, grey siding in thick vines, and drunken hunters left their whiskey bottles there. I was lonely in the trunk. My family had gone. The years were hard.
Then came two explorers, Chick and Jim. Feeling an energy deep in the woods, they hastened to the house, pierced its curtain of vines, and saw the house in the plain light of sunlit day. Then, the twain led the cousins, Dianne and Joyce, and Robert and Tom, on a voyage of exploration to the old homestead. I heard footsteps; my anxiety level rose. Then, the trunk in which I was stored opened, and a curious and happy face beheld me. Soft, loving hands picked me up from the trunk, and I was cradled against a heart beating rapidly with joy. Dianne had found me. I was alone in the darkness no longer, but loved once again in the daylight.
I will whisper to Dianne’s spirit at night and talk to her inner mind by day. I will tell her of the generations of her family who made me. I will tell her of their lives and their toils, their triumphs and their failures, their unshakable faith. I will inspire her and blanket her in my warmth and love. My warmth and love will reflect the warmth and love of the generations who made me, and their warmth and love reflect that of the Creator.
RAB 1 November 2006
(Quilt rediscovered 28 October 2006)
cousin Robert Butler, Philadelphia, PA
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