Quilt Conjures Memories for Baltimore Writer

The stitchings in the Linthicum Centennial quilt have touched a few people since Irma Eastland and her husband, Frank, put the finishing touches on it earlier this year.  Add another name to the list:  Rafael Alvarez, a Baltimore-born, Linthicum-reared journalist, author and television producer and writer, waxes nostaligic over the memories evoked by the quilt in a story published in the Baltimore Examiner on April 11.  Alvarez, who shuttles between Baltimore and Los Angeles, has written for Homicide: Life on the Street and HBO's hit drama, The Wire, and grew up on Orchard Road.