Birth of a Barn Quilt

Below are pictures of the progress of the quilt being painted on the Downtown Pomeroy Historical Museum.  The quilt block design and colors were chosen by Nadine Erickson.

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Thursday August 18, 2005.  Under the direction of Steve White, inmates from the Rockwell City Correctional Facility set up scaffolding and marked an 8' by 8' grid on the wall of the historical museum building.

Friday August 19, 2005 they started painting.

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Steve White continues on August 21 & 22

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By August 25th it looked like this

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