Want to read more good news about Alabama? Sign up for the This is Alabama newsletter here. A rustic barn is a picturesque reminder of Alabama’s agricultural roots. Add a “barn quilt” – a hand-painted ...

Rosemary Pacha poses for a portrait with her barn quilt called “Iowa Barn and Silo” at her century farm in Brighton on May 7. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Buy Photo If you’ve driven through the Iowa ...

ALTA VISTA — A group of Kansans are putting aside their thread and needles and picking up paintbrushes to create quilt blocks on barns throughout the Flint Hills. Since its initiation last fall, the ...

ATHENS, Ala. – There’s nothing more comforting than wrapping yourself in one of your grandmother’s quilts. One group is using that idea to wrap some love around north Alabama barns. The Alabama Barn ...

Last year, Sweetums and I were on one of our road trips through rural Alabama when we spotted a See Rock City barn and stopped to take a photo. The barn next to it was picturesque also: It featured a ...

Phyllis DeWys wasn’t expecting to get as inspired as she did while accompanying her husband on a pheasant hunt. “I go out in the field,” she said. “I don’t carry a gun. I don’t find any pleasure in it ...

A contemporary design adapted by Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust Inc., incorporating a sheaf of grain by its staff after research into barn quilt block designs, was made for the Weantinoge barn on ...