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Barns of Minnesota
Finalist:Minnesota Book Award -Nonfiction (2006)
Minnesota's barns are remarkable testaments to a midwestern way of life, one centered on the land, work, family, ingenuity, and perseverance. Many think of barns as breathtaking landmarks along the byways. Others have their favorite barns--the well-kept, red dairy barn near St. Cloud, the faded horse barn on the way to Faribault. Still others know these structures more intimately: barns are as integral to their lives as family and home. In Barns of Minnesota, photographer Doug Ohman showcases the vast array of these exceptional landmarks, built by hand in wood, stone, brick, or metal and dating back as far as 1880. Where Ohman's photographs capture the beauty of the barn from the outside in, Will Weaver's evocative story illuminates the life of the barn from the inside out. Readers witness the making and breaking of one barn as it plays into the life and sustenance of several generations of one family who settled the land in 1922 and who farmed into the age of agribusiness. Seventy-five stunning color photographs accompanied by Weaver's moving story uplift these beautiful buildings and a way of life on the land that is as strong and proud, as fragile and humble, as the barns among us.
Book Details
- Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2005
- Pages: 127
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 8.10in - 0.50in - 1.30lb
- EAN: 9780873515276
- Categories: • Buildings - Residential• Subjects & Themes - Regional (see also Travel - Pictorials)• Subjects & Themes - Architectural & Industrial
About the Author
Weaver, Will: - Will Weaver is an award-winning author whose works include A Gravestone Made of Wheat, which won the Minnesota Book Award for fiction, and a forthcoming novel, Full Service. He is a professor of English at Bemidji State University.