Community Columns 35
The Recorder · October 8, 2015
Blue Hawaii most likely
meticulously hand sewn with a beautifully created design and carefully chosen color palette. Jacque’s passion and
dedication for his art is evident with
every stitch made on each quilt. His
process for each piece is methodic and
precise from the beginning design to
the final product. His creations aren’t
just quilts, they are finely crafted pieces
of art that can be functional bed quilts
or become beautiful wall art.”
“Jacque has been quilting since 2003
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Some of you are old enough to
know that Elvis, made a movie, “Blue
Hawaii,” back in the ‘60s. Angela Lansbury portrayed his mother in the film.
She was priceless as a typical stereotyped Southern mother. Elvis’s music
in that film is the best of Elvis. His
sweet voice is calming and charming
as there is very little of his “rock and
roll” style music in it. I could watch the
movie over and over just to hear his
music. The strange thing is that when
he was so popular, I didn’t like him at
all; mainly because I had never ever
really listened to his good music. His
gyrations were enough to turn me off
at that time of my life. I was a classical
music nut and truly very opinionated
about any music other than the masters’ works. I have matured, it seems.
The reason I am writing about “Blue
Hawaii” — my granddaughter and her
husband are leaving Maui after living
and working over here for the past
year and a half. I’m sure that their new
friends there are ‘blue’ over losing
them. I am ecstatic that they are leaving and coming to live in Jacksonville.
How great is that!
One of Jacque Huber’s beautiful
quilts, that is being exhibited at the
Cultural Center Oct. 9th – Oct. 23rd
features Elvis. Jacque is donating
seventeen of his handmade quilts to
be raffled off, after the exhibit, “Quilts
for a Cause.” All of the money will be
used for the outreach programs at the
Center.
Jacque and his wife Linda toured
the Cultural Center with Leigh Rodante
from the Center. They were so impressed by the facilities’ arts programs
and outreach initiatives including
music therapy for children with special
needs, scholarships for financially underserved individuals, and arts classes
for seniors with early dementia, that
they decided to expand their philanthropic mission to the Cultural Center.
Ms. Rodante states, “Each quilt is
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