Q While cleaning out an aunt’s estate, we found a box full of fancy embroidered robes and quilts. My great-grandmother taught in China in about 1915 or 1920 so we guessed that these were things she ...

If you look closely, you can see the unfolding story of a well-to-do St. Paul, Minn., family stitched into the pieces of an elaborate Victorian crazy quilt, which dates to the 1890s. It tells of the ...