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I hope you enjoyed and were perhaps moved by the article I shared last week, titled, "Town Barns." (yes, I know; calender was just a typo -should have been calendar.) This week's offering is, in comparison, a bit wispy and less consequential, but nevertheless one that I want to share before this month gets away from us. I have always believed that sunshine and blue skies are inordinately esteemed and celebrated by TV meteorologists as well as the common populace. Because gray skies and cold temps take me back to my childhood in Ohio, I have...
Few remain. Many have collapsed under the weight of their own frailty. Still others have been removed for outliving their usefulness or esthetic value. Town Barns we're talking about here...(or are we?) Because society's infrastructure has encroached upon them, they are no longer esteemed as their iconic rural counterparts, which adorn calenders and invite passers-by to admire and even stop to do a "photo-op." No, these centenarians receive only the occasional furtive glance with no thought of...