 Are you ready for warm weather and a little sunshine? The Appalachian wireless team has decided to have the ultimate spring break event. The spring break event is going on now through the end of April and all smartphones are on sale with Appalachian Advantage. We are you, we are Appalachian Wireless. Forty-year quilt maker, Ben Eisen, will be setting up an exhibit titled, Stories Told Secrets Revealed This Month at the Appalachian Center for the Arts. In preparation, Mountaintop spoke with Eisen about what we can expect. I am so lucky, I have gotten to set up this exhibit here at the Art Center. It's called Stories Told Secrets Revealed. It's a quilt exhibit of ten of my quilts and it's different than a usual quilt exhibit because it includes the stories behind the quilts and all their secrets. So as a quilt maker, I like to tell stories, but mostly people don't get to know what they are. In the spirit of telling stories, each quilt will be displayed alongside a statement of its history and inspiration. One story, in particular, the tale of a missing family member. Quilts are diverse because I'm quilting out my life and my life has lots. We don't, none of us live on just one, have one story of our lives. Lives are full of stories. So I draw stories from the stories of my husband's family, from his mother whose sister disappeared when they were young in 1946 and wasn't found until years later. So I made a quilt to talk about that story to see if we could use it to help us find her sister Dixie. Where the quilt behind me is a quilt called The Key Is Found and it's about the things that people search for in lives, in their lives. And I made it because I was searching myself, trying to figure out why do we create and what makes us creative. And as I was asking that question, I kept pulling other stories and putting them into a quilt. And while the goal of Eisen is to tell stories through her quilts, she hopes to hear from others. A quilt called America Unraveled and Rewound. And what I would really like for people to do is there's a small journal with it where people can write their thoughts about what's the candle in the middle of America that we should be circling up to protect. And what are the things that we can do to make America more united? So for me, the present for me would be if more people would write in that journal their thoughts, whether they're happy thoughts or angry thoughts or good thoughts or bad thoughts. You know, I'd like to, since I can't be here all the time to listen to people's stories, I wish they would leave a little bit of their story behind. To see the exhibit and its progress, you can visit the Appalachian Center for the Arts Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Chorjol.