Description
Through dozens of interviews with barn artists, committee members, and barn owners Parron documents a journey that started 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 turned into a group effort that at last grew into a county-wide project. Nowadays, 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.