The Banner That Never Came Down
In the summer of 1987, Margaret Ellison of Boone, North Carolina, hung a hand-sewn banner from the front porch railing the day her husband Robert...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Song of Solomon 2:4.
In the summer of 1987, Margaret Ellison of Boone, North Carolina, hung a hand-sewn banner from the front porch railing the day her husband Robert came home from eight months of cancer treatment at Duke University Medical Center. The banner read simply: "Welcome Home, My Love." It was stitched in gold thread on deep red fabric — colors she chose because they reminded her of autumn in the Blue Ridge, the season they had married.…
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