Burbs Eat Barns

As farms fall to developers—and flat out fall down—“barn huggers” are mobilizing to preserve classic wood barns. "Can you imagine an America without a barn on the landscape? Is that the America we want?" Iowa contractor and barn enthusiast Rod Scott asks the Associated Press. New York Gov. George Pataki, who hails from Poughkeepsie, hard on the barn/burb border, has supported state funds for barn preservation, as have legislators in Vermont. But individuals like Scott and officials at the National Trust for Historic Preservation say time is running out on these staples of rural America.