Famous Gee's Bend quilters come to teach, sing at Alabama Folk School

By Dale Short, Daily Mountain Eagle
Posted 4/24/16

Mary Ann Pettway took a long detour from quilting. She learned how from her mother at age seven, but stopped during the years she attended business college and then worked as a seamstress in a clothing factory. When the factory closed, she began …

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