Perhaps time does come to a standstill. However, if it does, it is only momentary. Perhaps the "now" does not really need to know the past. Perhaps what will be will simply be. If we really believe ...

LAWLER, Iowa — The Blazek Barn was built around 1900, and it's been going through changes ever since, said Bob Blazek, who has overseen restoration of the structure. Bob Blazek is restoring the barn ...

TOWNER, N.D. -- Our old faded barn doesn't get used as much these days as it did years ago. We don't calve in cold weather anymore, and we don't ranch with teams of horses needing stalls to eat their ...

Photo credit: Photo taken in 1933 of the Kandt-Domann farmstead barn in Dickinson County, Kansas. (Photo courtesy Library of Congress.) Along every rural road there is at least one old barn, either ...

LANESBORO — "Now thank we all our God with hearts and hands and voices," the Elstad Lutheran congregation sang Sunday, their song swirling around 145-year-old hand-hued beams, sliding through gaps in ...

Early pioneers used scythes and sickles to cut the hay and then piled it up with wooden forks. In the 1940s came the twine, automatic tie baler which was pulled behind a tractor and produced a 60- to ...

The hay mow at the Jerry and Deb Heinz farm in rural Tolono on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. Mini donkey Sammy greets people in a pasture at the Jerry and Deb Heinz farm in rural Tolono on Tuesday, June 29, ...

There is nothing that brings back memories of the farm life days of my youth more than the smell of freshly baled hay in late summer. When the season is nearly over, when hot August days bring the ...

While traveling through West Virginia and Pennsylvania last month, a large part of the time on two lane highways, my wife and I began to notice the many interesting barns along the way. Many appeared ...