Borderland in Butternut & Blue: A Sampler Quilt to Recall the Civil War
Barbara Brackman has been writing about history since the 1970s. She grew up in Johnson County Kansas, and moved to Lawrence when she went to college at the University of Kansas. The Victorian town with its Civil War history captured her heart and she has lived there (with a few big city breaks) ever since.Quilt history is her profession and local history is another passion. She's served as consultant for several museum exhibits on both, written quite a few books on quilts, in particular about quilts and the Civil War. She was the local history consultant when Ang Lee filmedRide With the Devilin Kansas City, his moive about the border war starring Tobey Maguire and Jewel.For Kansas City Star Books, she has writtenWomen of Design: Quilts in the NewspaperandPrairie Flower: A Year on the Plains. She also designs reproduction fabrics for Moda.