<DIV><p> 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 <I>Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement</i> Suzi Parron travels through twenty-nine states and two Canadian provinces to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America's tourist and folk art map.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> 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.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> With more than fifty full-color photographs, Parron documents a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div>