Hope’s Yellow Trail Museum to unveil Indiana Bicentennial Barn Quilt

The Yellow Trail Museum in Hope will have two new displays in time for this weekend’s Hope Heritage Days.

The museum, on the northwest corner of the Hope Town Square will be holding an open house from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday to launch the new veterans display and to show the Indiana Bicentennial Barn Quilt.

Barb Johnson, director of the museum, says that the quilt started in 2015 with artists creating quilt blocks representing old barns in their communities. Each of the state’s 92 counties are represented, including the Bartholomew County quilt block by Peggy Sanqunetti.

The quilt is on loan from the new owner Melba Shilling of Knox, Ind. who won it at the end of last year’s bicentennial activies in an online auction.

The Yellow Trail Museum will be offering a book about the quilt for sale for $10. That is a fundraiser for the Indiana Barn Foundation. In addition to Friday’s open house, the Yellow Trail museum will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.