In the early years of the 20th century the term auto trail was used for a marked highway route, and trail is now also used to designate routes, including highway routes, designated for tourist interest ( e. g. National Historic Trails, the Cabot Trail and Quilt Trail ).

Amongst famous quilts in history is the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was begun in San Francisco in 1987, and is cared for by The NAMES Project Foundation.

* Ismat Chughtai wrote an Urdu-language story entitled " Lihaf " (" The Quilt ", 1941 ) that led to scandal and an unsuccessful attempt at legal prosecution of the author because it was about a lesbian relationship.

The idea for the NAMES Project Memorial Quilt was conceived in 1985 by AIDS activist Cleve Jones during the candlelight march, in remembrance of the 1978 assassinations of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.

Lacking a memorial service or grave site, The Quilt was often the only opportunity survivors had to remember and celebrate their loved ones ' lives.

The first showing of the The Quilt was 1987 on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

The largest display of The Quilt since it was last displayed in its entirety in October 1996, the 1, 000 blocks displayed consisted of every panel submitted at or after the 1996 display.

* The NAMES Project was the basis for the musical Quilt, A Musical Celebration

* The AIDS Memorial Quilt was mentioned and shown during the years that General Hospital held their Nurses Ball ( 1994 – 2001 ) raising money for AIDS research.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt was the first of its kind as a continually growing monument created piecemeal by thousands of individuals, and today it constitutes the largest piece of community folk art in the world.

It was seemingly inevitable that The Quilt be followed by a variety of memorials and awareness projects, both AIDS-related and otherwise, that have been inspired by and modeled after The AIDS Memorial Quilt and its caretaker The NAMES Project Foundation.

The quilt was awarded the “ Best Original Design ” at the McMinn County Living Heritage Museum's Quilt Show.

Sheppard was arrested a third time at Blueskin's mother's brandy shop in Rosemary Lane, east of the Tower of London ( later renamed Royal Mint Street ), on 23 July by Wild's henchman, Quilt Arnold.

The 200, 000 person estimate, widely quoted from the New York Times, was made several hours before the march actually began ; similarly, most of the pictures used by mainstream media were taken early in the morning, or of the AIDS Quilt viewing area rather than the march itself.

The midway stage was added to replace the boat tag game and The Emporium gift shop opened in Lasso's old location, Crazy Quilt was removed and replaced with Lasso.

The National Quilt Museum was established by Bill and Meredith Schroeder of Paducah and opened to the public on April 25, 1991.

The museum was honored in May 2008 when the U. S. Congress designated it The National Quilt Museum of the United States.

In October 2011 the National Quilt Museum was honored with a 2011 Kentucky Governor's Award in the Arts.

At one point, Emma Bell Miles, author and painter, served as Artist-in-Residence at the university, a position that went unfilled until it was taken over by bestselling novelist Silas House ( Clay's Quilt, The Coal Tattoo ) in 2005.

She is also the author of Changes in You and Me, books about adolescence, the Oma's Quilt was developed as a short film by the National Film Board of Canada, Big Sarah's Little Boots and more.

So it came that Otto's car was finally stopped and the strip moved to a garage where Otto and his second banana Clem traded jibes as fumbling mechanics ... Otto Auto continued in this vein until February 6, 1921, when the strip was replaced by Crazy Quilt.

23 Feb. 2009 < http :// www. pba. org / programming / programs / thisisatlanta / aidsquilt />.</ ref > The Quilt is still maintained and displayed by The NAMES Project Foundation.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt itself is also warehoused in Atlanta when not being displayed, and continues to grow, currently consisting of more than 48, 000 individual memorial panels ( over 94, 000 people ) and weighing an estimated 54 tons .< ref > The AIDS Memorial Quilt.

October 22 – 24, 2009 – 1, 920 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, were displayed at the Eugene Levy Fieldhouse athletic facility.

In addition, artist Nicole Margaretten's sculpture " Roasting the Virus: An Eternal Flame dedicated to those affected by HIV / AIDS " as well as a panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt were displayed at New School University in New York City.

Romare Bearden, Patchwork Quilt, cut-and-pasted cloth and paper with synthetic polymer paint on composition board, 1970, Museum of Modern Art

* October 10 – Tens of thousands rally in Washington, D. C., calling on the government to dedicate more funding to combating HIV / AIDS and unveiling the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.

The American Quilt Study Group is active in promotion of research on the history of quilting.

* Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America a number of Quilt projects were created memorializing the victims.

Ten U. S. AIDS Memorial Quilt panels were on display at Bisbee's famed Copper Queen Hotel.

It is located on West Telegraph Road, just outside of Santa Paula, and has been the setting for several movies including Amityville 4 ( 1989 ), and The Black Gate ( 1995 ), and How To Make An American Quilt ( 1995 ).

Also in 1989, he formed a ten-person " Voicestra " which he featured on both his 1990 album Medicine Music and in the score to the 1989 Oscar-winning documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.

* Roy Cohn's square on the AIDS Memorial Quilt

* The International Quilt Study Center is on East Campus and will be LEED certified.

Ann Rinaldi authored a historical novel titled The Coffin Quilt, based on a fictionalized account of the feud.

at San Francisco's NAMES Project Quilt office on Market St. working on the Sister's Nuns of The Above memorial quilt.

While in town for the AIDS Memorial Quilt display the Sisters led an exorcism of homophobia, classism and racism on the steps of the United States House of Representatives, and assisted with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT-UP ) death march and protest, to the gates of the White House where ashes of people who had died from AIDS were illegally spread on the lawn.

In Gary Paulsen's book The Quilt, one of a series of three books based on summers spent with his grandmother, Paulsen told about what a tremendous influence his grandmother had on him.

File: Liebman Reading Names at 1993 AIDS Quilt in DC. jpg | Liebman at the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.

* " Catch Me If You Can ," a song by Gym Class Heroes on the album The Quilt

The resulting material became The Quilt, which was released on September 9, 2008.

The film is loosely based on Ismat Chugtai's 1941 story Lihaf ( The Quilt ).

Crazy Quilt plays a major role in the episode " The Color of Revenge " where he tries to get revenge on Robin for blinding him back when he and Batman worked together.