My friend (who thinks she's my cousin) works for the state transportation department (CDOT) and this was in their newsletter:


"The Amazing Journey of the Elephant Quilt

A series of inspirations and a lost quilt is on its way home.

For about a month a quilt found alongside the road lay on a bench at the maintenance barn in Saguache. Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) maintenance workers from Patrol #7 in Saguache were discussing what to do with it when one of the men said he would take it home and use it for a snuggle blanket for his small Dachshund/Chihuahua who likes to burrow under covers.

When he showed it to his wife, she looked it over and found a tag that read “made especially for you by Eulah Hawks.” Perfectly stitched and in mint condition the large but dirty quilt featured many 12” square blocks of beautifully embroidered elephants. She knew someone was missing a treasure. Was it a grandchild?

She washed the quilt and then thought of her friend, Gerri Cummings. She intended to give it to Gerri's sister, Shelly, if the owner couldn't be found.

When Gerri saw the quilt, her heart strings were pulled just as Margaret's were. She knew this was her mission and she set out to find the owner. An avid Face Book fan, Cummings decided to try there first.

She found four names and addresses with the last name of Hawks. Armed with her research, Gerri rushed over to the Adams State University library and continued her sleuthing and found phone numbers. Excited, she drove directly to the Trinidad State Junior College Valley Campus, where Margaret works, to share her news. She then left the college to continue her detective work.

Bingo!! Using the first number she selected from her list, she connected with Eulah Hawks' brother-in-law, Raymond. Gerri told him what she wanted and gave him her phone number.

Ten minutes later Eulah Hawks' husband, Sam, called Gerri. An avid quilt maker, Hawks had created the quilt for her wheelchair-bound friend who was ill. With the quilt packed among their belongings, the friend had moved from Montrose, Colorado to Texas but, mysteriously, the quilt was lost along the way. Interestingly, the Hawks did not know it was missing.

Hawks' husband was elated to hear from Cummings and so grateful for the CDOT worker who took the quilt home for his dog, whose wife recognized it as a treasure, who then shared it with her friend, who then tracked down the Hawks.

When he asked Gerri how she found him, she replied, “Face Book!” “What's Face Book?” he asked. Surprised by his answer, Cummings explained what it was and ended their conversation with “God works in mysterious ways!” And then she called her friend Margaret to share the good news.
The next day she boxed the quilt and mailed it to the Hawks who will return it in two months when they visit their friends in Texas.