The patchwork of Connecticut is one of incredible intricacy and texture, stitched together by the stories of the people that have come to call our small state home. The Hudson family of Bristol has one such story.
Decades ago, southern couple Laura and Joe Hudson made their way up to the Northeast, settling down in central Connecticut. Both made the best of life in Bristol, raising a family, and carrying on some of the traditions they had brought with them from the South.
For Laura, that tradition was quilt-making.
On WNPR's Where We Live, Joe Hudson, 96, sat down with two of his children, Linda Hudson Ferguson and Robert Charles Hudson, to memorialize Laura’s quilts. Several of them are on display in “Warmth and Creativity: The Hudson Family Quilts” at the Institute for Community Research Gallery in Hartford.
Also present for the interview was Institute for Community Research Program Director Lynne Williamson, who spoke about Laura's quilts. "There’s a memory there," she said. "There’s a family memory that I know everyone in the Hudson family feels. When we look at these quilts, it goes way beyond just the beauty of it."
“Warmth and Creativity: The Hudson Family Quilts” will be on view at the Institute for Community Research Gallery until December 19, 2014. For more information, visit incommunityresearch.org.
