The Pioneer Museum of Alabama’s 2025 Biennial Quilt Show will run through March 29. The museum is open Thursday through Saturday.  Admission to the museum includes the 2025 Biennial Quilt Show.

Pictured is Lenette Parris’  Smilie Town Signature Quilt – The Smilie Town Signature Quilt was signed by more than one Smilie family daughter. Mary Lou Smilie Curtis, a signer of the quilt, was the mother to Claudie Bell Curtis Pugh and a great grandmother to Julie Mason, who still lives nearby in a South Montgomery town. Mrs. Pugh said of the quilts: “each lady in the community would stitch and sign one square and then they would assemble the quilt and gift it to ladies in the community for wedding gifts.” The Smilie Town community along Highway 94 in Montgomery County swelled in residents as families living along Curtis Rd, which was dirt, moved into the adjacent area in order for children to be able to ride the school bus. This quilt came to be in the Parris family most likely as a wedding gift in the early 1910s, if not before in 1880, for a marriage from the previous generation.