Burkhalter shares living history at Pioneer Museum - The Troy Messenger

Burkhalter shares living history at Pioneer Museum - The Troy Messenger

Sherry Burkhalter in character as Clara Jo Spivey, a Louisville, native, in her handmade dress, shared family quilts with all the information she could gather Saturday morning, in a program at the Pioneer Museum of Alabama.  “It was kind of like historical fiction with as much truth as Sherry could find in the newspapers and from others in the area about Clara Jo and her family,” said Barbara Tatom, museum director.” Sherry shared random boxes o…