New Milford Joins A National Barn Quilt Trail Trend

By Lisa Green

Quilts have told stories for hundreds of years. But in the past couple of decades, they've started presenting their stories in a new way — a new medium, in fact — and New Milford, Conn. is one of the first (if not the first) communities in the RI region to join the national barn quilt trail.

These are not your traditional stitch-by-stitch quilts, although the New Milford project took as much time and effort to achieve as any cotton quilt might. Quilt patches are actually quilt-like patterns painted on eight-foot-square plywood, and then mounted on barns. Beyond the artistic purpose, there's a mission to New Milford Barn Quilt Trail: to honor the town's farming history, and encourage people to explore that...

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