Pick up a Patchwork Punchcard, visit all 8 Quilt Hop Stops, and enter to win great quilting door prizes. TAPS shuttle service is available all day Saturday.

The 81st Texas Legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives both took a moment to admire an historic railroad career that carried Alonzo John Wemple from his hometown of Schenectady, New York to Bonham, Texas -- a career then even included piloting the train that carried the body of slain U.S. President Abraham Lincoln a portion of the way between Washington, D.C. and Springfield, Illinois.

Every quilt tells a story. Whether it is a baby quilt lovingly made by an expectant mother in the 1930s, a quilt pieced and embroidered by friends in the 1990s, a quilt sewn by a grandmother for her granddaughter’s wedding in the 1960s or quilts purchased at antique quilt shows throughout the country to furnish the houses of a family ranch compound, all are family treasures that tell a story. These family treasures will be on display at the Bonham Public Library during the Quilt Hop July 25 and 26. photo of axe head quilt by Letty Wageman

It takes about $32,000 a year to maintain Willow Wild the way we wanted it to look, the way we promised you we would. The biggest cost is mowing, but there are water bills, restoration costs from vandalism, equipment maintenance, fence repair, storm clean up - the list goes on and on. We need donations. No amount is too small, and we provide tax receipts. Our goal is to raise $10,000 by Labor Day.

Volunteer Kevin Wilson gives a tour during the 2010 Quilt Hop at the Sam Rayburn House Museum.

2001 – death of Eudora Welty, American author. Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards including the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.