Interview with artist and former Steptoe/Westport resident Sonie Ruffin. Ruffin discusses her family, moving to Kansas City from Joplin around 1970, neighbors who worked for St. Luke's Hospital, the social and cultural life in the area, working at a variety of Plaza shops, and notes that Westport was an integrated community when she moved there in the '70s. She also discusses her work as a fiber artist and her book, The Soulful Art of African American Quilts, and the relationship that St. Luke's Hospital had with the neighborhood and neighbors who were employed by the hospital.