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Old Farm Buildings

Old Farm Buildings

One of my hobbies is photographing old farm buildings. It's just one of those things that I have always thought was beautiful, and interesting. Sometimes while photographing them I have to just sit there and wonder what that old building could tell you if it could.

Located near Lincoln, Illinois (if still standing)

Growing up on a farm in Illinois many years ago, I know only too well how it was then.....yet I wonder how was it even before then. All the ups and downs, the years crops were good, the years they weren't; the years the livestock market was good, the years it wasn't.

My maternal grandparents were "Sooners" in the eighteen hundreds. They "homesteaded" in Oklahoma. They came over from Northern Germany seeking a new and better life. I don't think I can even come close to imagining what it must have been like for them. They could barely speak English, but, they had endured meeting each and every obstacle head on. But, what they had most of was will-power and determination. This is a tribute to them.

Mr & Mrs E.J. Luken

Ostrfriesland, Germany,

Edmund, Oklahoma

Emden, Illinois

R.I.P. They are 'home' now.

So, to some those old farm buildings may appear as an old worn out structure, but I think much could be learned if only those old buildings could talk. Have you ever wondered where the term "barn dance" came from? Or where farm kids played? The next time you pass by a farm and there are still some old buildings, pause for a minute and visualize what it might have been like 'back then'. Then take out your camera and snap a picture or two because these old buildings represent and era nearly gone, and never to return. Those old buildings are now disappearing at a very fast rate no longer needed in todays' farming methods. Soon, there will be ....only pictures.

Cheers, to all my good friends

Lee