Barn quilt display gives visitors a Wadesboro welcome

The barn quilt options a distinctive story to every quilt however a cohesive picture of Anson County.
Hannah Barron | Anson Record

“It’s about wanting in direction of the way forward for how we’re making the city higher.”- Elizabeth Oliver, coordinator
WADESBORO — The most up-to-date effort so as to add artwork to Wadesboro and entice tourism is within the type of a barn quilt.
The Wadesboro Barn Quilt Mural Project began in late 2018, and the creation was put up on Sept. 11, 2021. The barn quilt options a number of quilt blocks representing Wadesboro and Anson County. In consists of references to every part from the 1985 movie “The Color Purple” (which was filmed in Anson) to Peaches n’ Cream’s well-known peach ice cream down the street. The huge quilt’s focus is on the heart which reads “Wadesboro NC Welcomes You.” The barn quilt took over 150 volunteers, 640 sq. toes of quilt, 12 workshops, 20 sheets of plywood, 45 2×4’s, round a 1,000 screws, greater than 15 gallons of paint, greater than 100 rolls of tape, and lots of hours of dedication and energy.
“Each board on the barn quilt mural was sponsored and painted by a particular person,” defined Coordinator Elizabeth Oliver. “So there’s a story behind every board, and so they ranged from folks’s battles with most cancers, the lack of a younger little one, or a cousin that was deployed to Afghanistan, folks that have lived right here all their lives, folks that simply moved right here. So each single board has a completely different story behind it, however the widespread thread is the folks of Anson County, and so they needed to be a a part of the mission as a result of they’re proud to be right here.”
“It’s about wanting in direction of the way forward for how we’re making the city higher,” Oliver continued.
The barn quilt might be discovered on the outdated TV Tech constructing on 105 W. Main Street, seen from Highway 74 Eastbound.
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