Old but not forgotten
Fern Greenbank
Community Storyteller
Barns are just wood and nails, structures meant to house animals,
tack and feed. They’re just rustic rural garages. Right? If that was true,
photographers like Mickey Chilton wouldn’t spend hundreds of hours
tracking them down and photographing them, cataloging them and saving
them.
Maybe originally barns were just wood and nails, structures meant to
house animals, tack and feed. But, over decades, they have come to represent
something bigger than a place for horses to sleep.
Barns, to me, represent a reverence for the land and animals that used
to be the focus of our lives, before cars, cellphones, corporate board meetings
and time clocks became the norm.
Barns, like people, age differently. Some age with grace, others
disentegrate too soon. The elements take their toll and barns start to decay.
Driving the backroads, you c