There was a full house at the First United Methodist Church on April 24, 2025 as the Glynn Dems kicked off the 2025 Democratic Women’s Luncheon season.
A Moveable Feast catered with box lunches of Chicken Salad or a Goat Cheese Salad Option. There were plenty of volunteers on hand to make sure everything ran smoothly.
Marie Brewer gave a presentation on the Freedom Quilt (in background) which she had stitched. It represents safe houses and travel for enslaved people who were runaways.
A raffle , for the quilt, is being held in which the proceeds will be split between the WVOG and an African American historical non-profit that will be chosen by the WVOG.
If you want more info on these quilts you can check out “Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt” by Deborah Hopkinson or “Hidden in Plain View” by Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard, Ph. D.
Author Jim Barger, Jr. , the featured speaker, shared anecdotes from his book “Jimmy Carter: River and Dreams“, which chronicled the half century experiences of Dr. Carlton Hicks as he fly fished around the world with Jimmy Carter, both before and after he was president.
