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Posted by mike a. tenn. on February 17, 2007 at 07:39:31 from (75.120.193.153):
while watching something on tv this morning, there was a peaceful farm scene with a large old wood framed barn in it. not sure all the reasons why, but i've noticed in tenn. that there are very few of the large barns i knew as a kid in the midwest. it probably has something to do with the climate difference, and maybe that there are lots of termites here. i started thinking back about some of the farms i worked on as a child and all the very large barns i climbed around in. (forty some odd years ago) a few years ago, while visiting family in indiana, i took my wife for a ride around the back roads where i grew up just to show her my childhood stomping grounds. most of the farms are gone now. lots of them are subdivisions...and not one of the many old barns i used to work and play in is still standing. i can still rmember the way they smelled and all the timber work in them. it makes me kind of sad to think they're gone forever. i know there are lots of farmers on this forum with family farms that go back generations. i sincerely hope that if your old wood frame barn is still standing, you'll preserve it. it sure would be a shame to drive thru the midwest farm country someday, and not see any of these huge, majestic old buildings on the horizon. i know nothing can last forever. and as i get older i realize this more. it must be pretty expensive to maintain these old structures when a new steel building is probably more economically feasible and better suited to modern farming.....sorry...just reminiscing about days gone by i guess... -mike
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