I was just about to dash out the front door, well before sunrise last Saturday, when I remembered what happened in the past when I wore my favorite Columbus Blue Jackets “White Out” T-shirt in public.

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. There are three reasons we see so many red American barns. It’s traditional, it’s ...

Driving around the Midwestern countryside, one sees many old farm buildings falling into ruin. For me, this is painful to see because it represents a loss of our architectural and cultural heritage.

Note: Mary and John Farrell gave me permission to reprint this story on the history of their barn. I met them at the Cayuga County Historian's Office in 2001, where they were researching local barns.