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Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement
Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Author:Suzi Parron, Donna Sue Groves �The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares writ large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron travels through twenty-nine states and... more » two Canadian provinces to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America?s tourist and folk art map. �Through dozens of interviews with barn artists, committee members, and barn owners Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves?s desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. Today, registered quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred driving trails. �With more than fifty full-color photographs, Parron documents a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon. �« less