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Miami Centennial Quilt
Julia
Tuttle's Orange Blossoms
by Donna M. Kahlke
Appliqué
Though she makes her home in New Jersey, Ms. Kahlke is an avid Miami
historian and an avid quilter, as well. Her block recalls how after the
freeze of 1895, after visiting Julia Tuttle, FEC executive James Ingraham
sent citrus blossoms to railroad baron Henry Flagler, her way of telling
him paradise awaited in an undeveloped place on the water called Miami.
Ms. Kahlke did her quilt block in memory of her father, Edwin H. Weidman,
who “loved and worked with trains from Pullman Standard in Chicago
to the New York City Transit Authority to being involved in the beginning
of Miami’s Metrorail.”
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Miami Centennial Quilt
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