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Alabama River. The single road in and out of town was not paved until in 1967.
Isolation and poverty have marked the community, but that very isolation has also been a blessing, protecting the community and making it a fertile incubation ground for what the New York Times described as “some of the most miraculous works of modem art America has produced.”
For generations, women of the Bend have passed down an indigenous style of quilting geometric patterns out of old britches, commeal sacks, Sears corduroy swatches and hand-medown leisure suits.
The quilts provided warmth and comfort, especially in drafty, old cabins with newspapered
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