Overview

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.

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9780819574039

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Reviews

[Starr's] compelling and lovely photographs capture barns in all states of repair and disrepair, both working and derelict, from all over the state, and invite the reader to contemplation about how the world has changed since the first European settlers established themselves here in the 17th century. --Elizabeth Hannon Kading, Connecticut History Review

[Starr's] compelling and lovely photographs capture barns in all states of repair and disrepair, both working and derelict, from all over the state, and invite the reader to contemplation about how the world has changed since the first European settlers established themselves here in the 17th century. Elizabeth Hannon Kading, Connecticut History Review

Author Information

MARKHAM STARR is a photographer and the author of End of the Line: Closing the Last Sardine Cannery in America. His photographs have appeared in Yankee Magazine.

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