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Cliff Williams / TPI Even at 96, Jacqueline Lacey of Wetumpka, still passes on her knowledge of quilting. Her she is helping put a quilt on a frame for repair.

Tonea Stewart is used to being in front of the camera. She has starred in Mississippi Burning, In the Heat of the Night, Matlock and more.

Stewart was also on the faculty at Alabama State University leading the performing arts program. Now she is on the other side of the camera documenting history. Recently Stewart and her team had the first of several planned visits with the Thread My Needle Quilting Guild that meets at the Elmore County Black History Museum.

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Cliff Williams / TPI Tonea Stewart, second from left, visited with the Thread My Needle Quilters as she begins a documentary project on the Wetumpka group. Stewart was in A Time to Kill, Mississippi Burning and The Rosa Park Story.