Elaine Osborn stands in front of the barn at Maple Crest Farms that recent received one of Saline County’s latest barn quilts. Workers install a barn quilt on a barn owned by Robert Thompson of Arrow Rock. Council spokesman Mary Duncan of Arrow Rock said the group’s goal is to have 20 barn quilts in three counties — Saline, Cooper and Howard — by 2011, and at least one more quilt will be added in each county in coming weeks. Duncan said the council plans to develop a brochure by next summer that will provide information about the quilts and guide tourists through the barn quilt trail.

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