NBA Virtual Lecture #3
Join us for the next lecture in a series of presentations led by experienced practitioners across the country in support of barn-preservation education! This lecture will be hosted via Zoom and is free to all who register. To register, send an email to RSVPwith your name and location (city/county, state) to info@barnalliance.org by Sunday, October 25th. We will send an email with the details to call or login to all registrants on October 27th “Oklahoma’s Historic Barns” Presenter: Dr. Brad Bays Keywords: Barn Types, Upland South...
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Join us for another presentation in support of barn-preservation education This free lecture will be hosted via Zoom and is open to anyone with an interest in learning more about historic barns! It will be held Wednesday, September 30th at 6 pm EST and is entitled, “The History of Agriculture as Told by Barns.” See the description below for details. To register for this event, send an email to RSVP with your name and location (city/county, state) to info@barnalliance.org by Sunday, September 27th. We will send an email with the details to call or login to all...
Read MoreNBA Launches Virtual Barn Preservation Lecture Series
Join us for a series of virtual presentations led by experienced practitioners across the country in support of barn-preservation education All lectures will be hosted via Zoom and are free to attend – open to anyone with an interest in learning more about historic barns! The first presentation in our series – to be held Wednesday, August 12th at 6 pm EST – is entitled, “How to Speak Barn: the Language and Nuances of Barn Anatomy and the Language We Use to Describe Them.” See the description below for details. To register for this event, send an email...
Read MoreWhat We Can Learn About Historic Barns in America from a Decade and the Agricultural Census
Danae Peckler, architectural historian, Fredericksburg, VA In 2007 and 2017—thanks to the lobbying efforts of a few National Barn Alliance (NBA) board members, particularly Rod Scott, and our great network of barn preservation advocates, including many active supporters of state and local preservation organizations—the United States Agricultural Department (USDA) put a simple question to the farmers of America’s working farms in the Agricultural Census: “Do you have a barn built prior to 1960?” From the “yes” or “no” answers of those farmers, a set of statistics...
Read MoreDating Barns in Holland Township, New Jersey with Dendrochronology (Part 3)
By Carla Cielo, Architectural Historian, Historic Preservation Consultant, Designer, and longtime NBA member. Two articles on this dendrochronology project have been previously published in the Barn Journal. Check out both stories: Part 1 & Part 2! (The Historic Preservation Commission of Holland Township, New Jersey, hired ‘Oxford Tree Ring Dating’ to date nine barns with dendrochrolology. This study has been funded, in part, with grants provided by the New Jersey Historical Commission. It was hoped that a study of this kind would answer questions related to ethnic settlement...
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About The Barn Journal
NBA’s blog, The Barn Journal, is named in honor of the work of Past President, Charles Leik, and the website he started in 1996. Charles communicated with a number of barn owners around the country and compiled their stories for all to enjoy. The site continues to feature a number of topics related to saving old barns and is known to many in the preservation community as a valuable resource. 