Harker's Barns


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"Complementing Harker's photographs are vignettes by poet and writer Jim Heynen. Both whimsical and endearing, each vignette treats barns as organic and intelligent entities, reflecting the living history that can be found inside each rural structure."--BOOK JACKET.







Harker's One-room Schoolhouses


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Michael Harker’s goal is to record Iowa’s historically significant architecture before it disappears forever. From Coon Center School no. 5 in Albert City to Pleasant Valley School in Kalona, North River School in Winterset to Douglas Center School in Sioux Rapids, and Iowa’s first school to Grant Wood’s first school, he has achieved this goal on a grand scale in Harker’s One-Room Schoolhouses.










National Register of Historic Places, 1966-1994


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Lists buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts that possess historical significance as defined by the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, in every state.




The Barns of the North Fork


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More than 150 full-color photographs highlight a photographic study of the various types of barns located in a sixty-mile strip of land that runs from Riverhead to Orient Point on New York's Long Island, revealing a rich variety of structures that range from the timber-frame barns of seventeenth-century British farmers to twentieth-century pole barns.




Jed Harker Rides Out


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Jed Harker wishes for nothing more than to mind his own business while travelling north to Kansas. In the summer of 1861 though, men and women were taking sides all across the United States and Harker finds himself compelled to declare where he stands on slavery. The result is that he finds himself fleeing through the Indian Nations; helping a family of escaping slaves to freedom. With war about to break out, it will be a race against time for Harker and his wards, as they become embroiled in the opening shots of the War Between the States.




Imagination-Building


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The Memoirs of John Douglas Forbes encompass watching the streetlamp lighters of San Francisco in 1912, to visiting the Royal Crescent in Bath in 2001, among many other memories. Art curator, educator, First Professor of the Darden School of the University of Virginia; hiker, kite flyer and traveler, who made a second family with the new wife he found through placing a Personal Ad in a magazine after becoming a widower --- John Douglas Forbes followed an unusual path. M.E. Forbes, in An Afterword to the Memoirs, speaks of the 38-year “May-December” journey she shared with Dr. Forbes.




Suffolk Deeds


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