SIEC Helps Install Barn Quilt

 Iowan’s are intrigued by the barn quilts that are being mounted on barns all across the state.  The American barn quilt movement started in Adams County Ohio, when Donna Sue Groves pained a quilt on an abandoned tobacco barn on her family’s property.  Since then the barn quilts have been added to barns in almost a third of Iowa’s counties, and in 25 different states.

 Over the years, local electric Cooperatives have donated their time to help mount these barn quilts on barns and cribs throughout several counties in Iowa.   On October 29^th the first two of six barn quilts were installed in Davis County as part of a barn quilt project sponsored by the Davis County Tourism Corporation.  SIEC was proud to be asked to help with this project.

 SIEC employees Laine King and Bob Weaklen attach a barn quilt to a barn owned by Glenn and Ann-Marie Baughman of Des Moines.  Picture provided by Glenn Baughman.