Editor:
I really enjoy Roberta Mc-Kern’s museum musings. The last one (Dec. 29) about a quilt interested me for different reasons than history. She assumes that mothers did the embroidery, because surely no boy, or child of 11 or 12, or a man would embroider.
I beg to differ. I knew a big Black man who cross-stitched a huge piece during chapel sermons for weeks. He did an impressively beautiful job. My son’s friend, hardworking…