Barns of Connecticut
Barns of Connecticut

Author: Markham Starr

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 081957404X

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Featuring more than 100 stunning full-color photographs along with helpful diagrams and historic photos, Barns of Connecticut captures both the iconic and the unique, including historic and noteworthy barns. The book discusses the importance of barns to Connecticut agriculture across our state and up to the present day. Markham Starr's Barns of Connecticut offers a lovely introduction to the architectural, functional, and agricultural roles these structures played in early Connecticut. Through text and color photographs, it tells a story of change and continuity. From the earliest colonial structures to the low steel buildings of modern dairy farms, barns have adapted to meet the needs of each generation; they've stored wheat, hay, and tobacco, and housed farm animals and dairy cows. These enduring structures display the optimism, ingenuity, hard work, and practicality of the people who tend land and livestock throughout the state.

Connecticut
Connecticut

Author: Christina E Cole

Publisher: America Through Time

Published: 2024-12-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781625451576

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Nostalgia creeps in and captures our souls. Whether triggered by a specific scent when wind blows the aroma of sweet grass your way or the burnt orange and sienna shades of changing leaves in the fall, there is no denying nostalgia's pull on our heartstrings. The classic red barn represents nostalgia for author Christina Cole. Puzzle boxes and wall calendars are often adorned with unattainable, far-off places in New England. Piece by piece, a dramatic explosion of color and moody skies falls into place. The finished product, or the page flip to the next month, results in the emotion of the end of something and the longing to visit those magical moments. That is what the winding roads of rural Connecticut are like, littered with fascinating history, architecture, and purpose, with all the perfect expectations of an unopened puzzle box.

American Barns and Covered Bridges
American Barns and Covered Bridges

Author: Eric Sloane

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0486425614

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This lovingly written book presents reliable records of such vanishing forms of architecture as the American barn and covered bridge. Delightful anecdotes accompany accurate line drawings of barns attached to houses, an "open" log barn in Virginia, a "top hat" barn in North Carolina, and more. Over 75 black-and-white illustrations.

Tobacco Sheds of the Connecticut River Valley
Tobacco Sheds of the Connecticut River Valley

Author: Darcy Cahill

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764332043

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Over 200 beautiful colour photos provide a detailed look at a wide variety of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. An engaging text delivers a unique look at tobacco sheds from a historical, personal, and an agricultural perspective through the changing seasons. Readers will enjoy an overview of the tobacco industry from the farmer's perspective and tour the valley's rich agricultural history, using interviews and hands-on research to captured the essence of this special crop. Learn why it is still an important part of life for the region and how Yankee ingenuity married form and function to solve unique problems presented by fickle weather conditions. Further, the text explores the construction and unique features of tobacco sheds, and how some historic sheds have been transformed, given new life and new uses. This book will be treasured by everyone fascinated with farm architecture and rural New England life.