Hill’s great-great-grandmother, Maggie Young, was a slave. A photo of a young Hill with her grandmother hangs over an antique Singer sewing machine and a box of scrap fabric. In these pieces, the women smile and laugh, and Hill has a story about each of them. Hill is bubbly and outgoing, a self-proclaimed “goofball,” and obviously an asset to any quilting circle, and not just for her know-how on a sewing machine. Twenty-eight years old and devoted to quilting, Hill represents the hope that this time-honored art will continue to flourish. He describes the exhibit as a way of “walking back in history, but then history meets the present.

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