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200th birthday quilt still vibrant

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200th birthday quilt still vibrant
Mrs. Sidney Walker and her son, Mike, hold up the patriotic quilt Mike won in a 1976 raffle. It was crafted by the Brantley Women’s Club to commemorate the nation’s 200th birthday. SPECIAL PHOTO

Some things last if you put a lot of heart into them.

Sewn together in 1976, a star-spangled red, white and blue quilt created by the Brantley County Women’s Club is still as vibrant 50 years later as the day it was completed.

The Women’s Club is no longer active and most of its members have “gone to be with the Lord,” said former club president Sidney Walker, but the quilt they created still remains and, by good fortune, wound up in the hands of her son.

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