Love those photos!! Yes, between the very different philosophies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, it was at least just as crazy politically as it is now. The main difference was that the times were crazy, not the president!
I spent the “war years” as a very young child on my grandfather’s farm poking around in barns and sheds. I developed a wild and fantastical imagination as a result. One which has made me smile 80 years later. Thanks for your sharing!
Thanks for your barn photos. They are beautiful & fascinating & stimulating. To be there and ponder the lives of the people & the animals who actually lived & worked right there in your barn must have been consciousness-expanding. You seem to have an inner archaeologist. Happy Trails!
Liza, wonderful photos, more precious than an artist could paint. I could almost smell the musty odors of days gone by when horses and feed and cats and spiders and mice roamed the barn. Thank you.
What a wonderful journey you've taken us on. Many Thanks
I, too, love 'oldness' and history.
My parents owned property in the California desert and I would ride my motorcycle all over and pickup remnants of by gone days. I would think about those that have gone before us.
My sister and her husband fixed up a 200 year old grist mill in a small town in New Hampshire in which to live and raise their family. The old bones are solid and the floors creek with age. We were up in the 3rd floor the other day, motes of corn flour still dance in the sunlight and the old sifter is there, 250 years now. It’s my favorite family home.
Gosh, this is so lovely to see the old barn that you are stewarding for this moment in history. I love old barns. I had the privilege of working and teaching in an 1815 barn (which was still used by an organic farm in Natick, MA) for almost 8 years from 2001-2009. Unfortunately, it burned down in 2020. (An absolute tragedy but they did rebuilt a barn there.) I luckily have two paintings of the interior and exterior done by the artist husband of our farm ‘boss’. I purchased them long before the barn burned and have been treasuring them all the more since that beautiful old structure was lost. I have been kind of obsessed with old barns ever since working there. I stop sometimes just to stare at them or go ask if I can look inside or visit ones in rural places that still sell produce or whatever out of them. I visited a round barn in PA once and they let me even go up into the second floor to see the beam work. I also helped ‘raise’ a post and beam barn once, which was not really a barn because we built it as a nature center in woods adjacent to the productive farm land fields and pastures and 1815 barn. We decided two years later to turn the nature center into a forest immersion preschool, which still runs to this day!!
Anyway, your barn looks spectacular. I hope you feel the beams and floor speaking to you through the years. And feel in your bones the hours of labor that got worked in that barn come through to you also. Good and sustainable Agriculture is just plain labor, nothing more, nothing less and old barns can teach us that fundamental truth. Can you tell I worked in food and soil and water ecology in agriculture most of my career. Hahaha! Gosh, I love these pictures and your captions. Thank you so much for sharing!
Liza - what a beautiful barn and studio - when I was a child all of the books I read were set in places like this - I loved reading about them and still find them peaceful and exotic. In Hawaii, the oldest places are 19th century places and homes of the Hawaiian royalty. I live in what is considered an old house (80 yrs). It is my retreat from the intensity of a tourism economy and traffic!
Thank you for sharing your barn photos! Looking through them brought back wonderful memories of my grandparent’s barn (of a similar age) in New Hampshire. As a kid I spent hours exploring every nook and cranny of that barn! Mostly, I remember the cool damp woodsy smell from the old timber and dirt floors. Thanks for bringing back such vivid memories!
Motorcycle riders, eh?
haha, my husband was. he just loves having an old one.
Love those photos!! Yes, between the very different philosophies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, it was at least just as crazy politically as it is now. The main difference was that the times were crazy, not the president!
I spent the “war years” as a very young child on my grandfather’s farm poking around in barns and sheds. I developed a wild and fantastical imagination as a result. One which has made me smile 80 years later. Thanks for your sharing!
So great. So true, letting kids just wander and explore. I had an old stream near my home growing up that made a big impact on me. Thank you!
Thanks for your barn photos. They are beautiful & fascinating & stimulating. To be there and ponder the lives of the people & the animals who actually lived & worked right there in your barn must have been consciousness-expanding. You seem to have an inner archaeologist. Happy Trails!
Liza, wonderful photos, more precious than an artist could paint. I could almost smell the musty odors of days gone by when horses and feed and cats and spiders and mice roamed the barn. Thank you.
What a wonderful journey you've taken us on. Many Thanks
I, too, love 'oldness' and history.
My parents owned property in the California desert and I would ride my motorcycle all over and pickup remnants of by gone days. I would think about those that have gone before us.
Fascinates me to this day.
Be safe and be well.
Thanks for sharing your life and place. As is said, if only those walls could talk.
the photos are stunning in their simplicity..the compositions are perfect..looking at them is truly thrilling....in fact, they take my breath away!
It all looks so Andrew Wyeth-y. Sigh. Tell us more about Old Crimmy.....
My sister and her husband fixed up a 200 year old grist mill in a small town in New Hampshire in which to live and raise their family. The old bones are solid and the floors creek with age. We were up in the 3rd floor the other day, motes of corn flour still dance in the sunlight and the old sifter is there, 250 years now. It’s my favorite family home.
Gosh, this is so lovely to see the old barn that you are stewarding for this moment in history. I love old barns. I had the privilege of working and teaching in an 1815 barn (which was still used by an organic farm in Natick, MA) for almost 8 years from 2001-2009. Unfortunately, it burned down in 2020. (An absolute tragedy but they did rebuilt a barn there.) I luckily have two paintings of the interior and exterior done by the artist husband of our farm ‘boss’. I purchased them long before the barn burned and have been treasuring them all the more since that beautiful old structure was lost. I have been kind of obsessed with old barns ever since working there. I stop sometimes just to stare at them or go ask if I can look inside or visit ones in rural places that still sell produce or whatever out of them. I visited a round barn in PA once and they let me even go up into the second floor to see the beam work. I also helped ‘raise’ a post and beam barn once, which was not really a barn because we built it as a nature center in woods adjacent to the productive farm land fields and pastures and 1815 barn. We decided two years later to turn the nature center into a forest immersion preschool, which still runs to this day!!
Anyway, your barn looks spectacular. I hope you feel the beams and floor speaking to you through the years. And feel in your bones the hours of labor that got worked in that barn come through to you also. Good and sustainable Agriculture is just plain labor, nothing more, nothing less and old barns can teach us that fundamental truth. Can you tell I worked in food and soil and water ecology in agriculture most of my career. Hahaha! Gosh, I love these pictures and your captions. Thank you so much for sharing!
Liza - what a beautiful barn and studio - when I was a child all of the books I read were set in places like this - I loved reading about them and still find them peaceful and exotic. In Hawaii, the oldest places are 19th century places and homes of the Hawaiian royalty. I live in what is considered an old house (80 yrs). It is my retreat from the intensity of a tourism economy and traffic!
Thank you, Lynn!
How beautiful, Liza. It's almost as if I could read the walls. What a history.
Thanks, Dan!
Beautiful photos. Wonderful comfort.
Thank you for sharing your barn photos! Looking through them brought back wonderful memories of my grandparent’s barn (of a similar age) in New Hampshire. As a kid I spent hours exploring every nook and cranny of that barn! Mostly, I remember the cool damp woodsy smell from the old timber and dirt floors. Thanks for bringing back such vivid memories!
Thank you for the barn tour. Originally from western MA, I love old barns and anything that reminds me of New England.
You’re welcome!