Sisters Inaugural Quilt
Raised November 5, 2011
“Sisters” Inaugural Quilt, Owners, Tavner and Susan Dunlap, 2600 Paynes Mill Road, Pisgah, viewable from Pisgah Pike, 1.6 miles from Castle, N 038° 04.108′-W 084° 39.534′ “Sisters” was the quilt selected by Susan Dunlap after a pattern gifted to her by a great-aunt who hand-stitched a quilt without the aid of eyeglasses when the quilter was 82 years old. Ms. Dunlap chose the pattern in honor of her sisters, Jeni Smith, Corydon, Indiana; and Jayne Culberson, Eugene, Oregon. Pastures Farm was established circa 1782. For over 200 years, its land has been host to hemp, burley tobacco, corn, subsistence crops, hogs, chickens, cattle, Thoroughbred horses and humans. An original log home was torn down in the early 1800s and replaced by a Greek Revival-inspired home in the 1840s. Lightening is believed to have caused a fire in the 1930s, and the current home, also Greek Revival-inspired, was built. There are four barns on the property, and the one on which “Sisters” is mounted was used for tobacco harvesting through the early 1990s.
Sisters March 2012
photo by Sally Horowitz
The Quilt