Machine Stitches by Anne Butler

Anne Butler is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. Francisville and runs the Butler Greenwood Plantation, which has been in her family since the 1790s, as a bed and breakfast. She has reached a wide audience with essays published in the Los Angeles Times, Country Woman, New Orleans Magazine, and Country Road, all inspired by her passion for culture. Pelican's Audubon Plantation Country Cookbook, Bayou Plantation Country Cookbook, Acadian Plantation Country Cookbook, The Pelican Guide to Plantation Houses of Louisiana, and her memoir, Weep for the Living, are among her other works.