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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 13 2005 : 5:11:16 PM
another little someething i came across in one of my books .. to share. "The red barn, a solid emblems of rural America. These autere, rather introspective buildings have a mythic, symbolic power, triggering strong feelings of nostalgia in even the most hardened of city-dwellers. Proud silhouettes looming on the landscape, red barns are not just large sheds for shelter and harvest. They are wedded to that most ancient and civilized of activities, the tilling of the land, and they represent an enduring American tradition. The barn was on eo fhte basic utilitarian structures brought over by the early settlers from the Old World. But in America its form evolved and its status ultimately became iconic. Born of necessity and built with little regard for anything but practical use, the American barn was a direct embodiment of the survival instinct of the pioneers.
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While travelling through Kentucky, i saw unpainted barns, red barns, white barns and black barns. I asked many farmers "why BLACK"? and was told over and over again .. that it 'ages' well .. and does not need to be repainted so often .. saving the farmer money.
a RED BARN is what brought me to Kentucky and to our farm .. i saw it on the cover of Country Living Magazine about a dozen years ago .. and it haunted me for years .. and one day .. my miracle occured .. it came up for sale .. and within days of finding it again .. we bought this olde barn and the two civil war era log cabins that came with it .. surrounded by a thousand acre woods.
Have not found the full story of the 'pioneers' who built it and lived here .. but will someday.
Do YOU have a special BARN in your life? Tell us about it! |
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| greyghost |
Posted - Nov 15 2005 : 05:06:15 AM
I would love a red barn. Or any barn! lol.
There is a red barn at the end of our street - I like to take photos of it sometimes - in the winter you can see the mountains behind it - very picturesque. |
| Whimsy_girl |
Posted - Nov 14 2005 : 7:34:24 PM
There is a gigantic red barn at the end of our street. It serves as a landmark to get places around here. If it were gone I doubt I'd be able to find my way home :)
The interesting thing with that is that when I was in kindergarten-2nd grade, I lived across the street from the house we bought 6 months ago. That barn was still there then and it was how I found my way home from school when I was very little, 20 years ago it was a much more vivid red than it is now but it's still there and it called me back here like a lighthouse on the dark ocean.
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. |
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