Author : Mary Keithan
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Photography
ISBN :
Photographer Keithan captures on film the rural landscape's aging and historic barns. But rather than a sad chronicle of America's rural decline, she presents a visual story of endurance and perseverance, of a way of life that continues to thrive. The b&w photographs from each of Michigan's 80 counties are enriched by her narrative, often including histories from the barn owners themselves.
Author : Robert Kroeger
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1467145629
From the glacier-flattened northwest to the Appalachian hills and valleys to the east and south, barns dot the Ohio landscape. Built with wooden nails and mortise-and-tenon joints and assembled with beams hand-hewn from nearby trees, some of these magnificent structures have witnessed three centuries. Many display the unique carpentry of masterful barn builders, including "mystery" wooden spikes and tongue-and-groove two-inch flooring. Sadly, a number of these barns, neglected for years, risk crumbling any day. Join artist and author Robert Kroeger on a trip to each of Ohio's eighty-eight counties to view some of the state's oldest and most historic barns before they're gone.
Author : Jan Corey Arnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0747814260
The heart of every working farm and ranch, the barn is an icon of rural America. This book chronicles – and celebrates – all the main types, and looks at how these treasures of early American architecture developed. It explains how a wealth of immigrant construction methods and range of environments and climates resulted in a fascinating variety of barn styles in the United States, from the earliest rare Dutch examples to simpler English types and others in more surprising shapes (round or even polygonal) crafted by the Shakers in the 1800s. It highlights the most notable, famous and historic barns that the reader can visit, and features the efforts of conservation groups to preserve America's barns and find innovative ways to repurpose these glorious old structures as homes and studios – and as living monuments of rural heritage.
Author : Cynthia Clampitt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 10,71 MB
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0252096878
Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.
Author : Michael W. R. Davis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738507798
Looks at the history of the Chrysler Corporation through a collection of vintage photographs.
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Publisher : Barn Door Pub
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Mike Sonnenberg
Publisher : Huron Photo
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : 9780999433201
Based on the popular Lost In Michigan website that was featured in the Detroit Free Press, It contains locations throughout Michigan, and tells their interesting story. There are over 50 stories and locations that you will find fascinating.
Author : David B. Jenkins
Publisher : Silver Maple Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780965230803
Author : Gwen Gutwein
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781949478617
11? x 8.5? Hardbound Cover? Color Dust Jacket? 200 Pages
Author : Jan Corey Arnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0747814279
The heart of every working farm and ranch, the barn is an icon of rural America. This book chronicles – and celebrates – all the main types, and looks at how these treasures of early American architecture developed. It explains how a wealth of immigrant construction methods and range of environments and climates resulted in a fascinating variety of barn styles in the United States, from the earliest rare Dutch examples to simpler English types and others in more surprising shapes (round or even polygonal) crafted by the Shakers in the 1800s. It highlights the most notable, famous and historic barns that the reader can visit, and features the efforts of conservation groups to preserve America's barns and find innovative ways to repurpose these glorious old structures as homes and studios – and as living monuments of rural heritage.
