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Barns of Wisconsin (Revised Edition) (Places Along the Way)

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In this new edition of his classic book, award-winning writer Jerry Apps shares a unique point of view at the great barns of rural Wisconsin. Digging deep as both an enthusiast and a farmer, Apps reaps a story of change: from the earliest pioneer structures to the low steel buildings of brand new dairy farms, barns have adapted to meet the needs of each and every generation. They’ve housed wheat, tobacco, potatoes, and dairy cows, and so they display the optimism, ingenuity, hard work, and practicality of the people who have a tendency land and livestock.
 
Featuring more than 100 stunning full-color photographs by Steve Apps, plus dozens of historic images, Barns of Wisconsin illuminates a vanishing way of living. The book explores myriad barn designs—from rectangular to round, from gable roof to gambrel, from fieldstone to wood—at all times with an eye to the history and craftsmanship of the Norwegians, Germans, Swiss, Finns, and others who built and used them. Barns of Wisconsin captures both the iconic and the unique, including historic and noteworthy barns, and discusses the disappearance of barns from our landscape and preservation efforts to save these necessary symbols of American agriculture.

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