GRAFTON — A few decades ago, Dorothy Bush, then a Grafton resident, was asked if she could make something out of Bob Barrett's mound of old silk ties.
As Dorothy tells it, “Ginna, Bob's wife, wanted to get rid of them, so he asked me to make something out of them.”
And she did: Dorothy made them into a unique multi-colored quilt, which the Barrett family recently donated to the Grafton Historical Society's museum.
“I had never made a quilt before, so it was a new experience for me,” she said.
Dorothy, now in her 90's, lives at Valley Cares in Townshend. And the quilt will be on display at the Grafton museum on Main Street this year.