A group of Cromwell girls
getting to know a bunch of Topeka
boys is what started the journey
man for Topeka, it meant that he
worked at night and had to sleep
to Topeka for quilter Doris Haggard.
during the day. Needing to be quiet for
However, the first time she met “Red”
him was a big part in Doris’s decision
she informed her friend that she would to take up quilting.
not go out with him, “...even if he was
Even so, she says it took her six
the last man on earth.” The man she
years to get that first quilt into a
ended up married t