That barn belongs to Groves, who lives in Southern Ohio’s rural Adams County. It’s on the nonworking farm she and her mother, Maxine Groves, bought in 1989, and its plainness bothered her.

Paintings of quilt squares are popping up on barns around the country. But they’re more than just a folksy attempt to beautify the landscape. These are the engines of a movement to promote to… ...

CHARLES CITY --- In Floyd County, two things symbolic of rural life --- barns and quilts --- go great together. More than 25 barns and a few other buildings in the county have quilt block designs ...

There was never a grand plan for the single quilt square that Donna Sue Groves envisioned painting on the family barn in Adams County, Ohio, in 2001.It was just meant to be a gesture honoring her ...

Donna Sue Groves once mused that an old barn would look nicer if draped in a quilt. When she painted a quilt block design onto wood in honor of her mother’s beautiful handmade quilts, that ...

Shawano County, northwest of Green Bay, proclaims itself as the barn quilt capital of Wisconsin with nearly 350 vibrant barn quilts, according to Jim Leuenberger, the mastermind, organizer, artist ...

The Barn Quilt Trail, paintings of colorful quilt patterns on barns, is a recent movement to aid rural tourism. The Barn Quilt Trail, ...

Ray Johnson, a retired REI jack-of-all-trades employee, grew up “out near Marsing” in the Deer Flat area. “My grandfather came into the valley in 1914,” Johnson said. “It was a ...