Crazy Quilt: A Patchwork of Yesteryear, Paperback/Lynn Coffey

The sixth book in the Backroads series by Lynn Coffey , Crazy Quilt is a patchwork of new and exciting offerings about the people and places dotting Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Crazy Quilt documents the history of two early log cabins and two post-Civil War churches as well as a plantation home dating back to the late 1700s. It is filled with modern-day people preserving the old Appalachian customs, keeping them alive for the next generation. An interview with an active centenarian as well as six unpublished "slice-of-life" vignettes by Lynn, completes the new book that is sure to please readers familiar with her writing.