Patchwork
Lyndon, Kansas
circa 1973
I believe this photo is of the side of one of the two barns on my grandparents’ farm. One of those barns (my favorite) burned down after a lightning strike and the other was dismantled by a barn wood collector when the farm was liquidated when my grandmother moved into town after the death of my grandfather in 1983. (This image is from a color slide scan that I converted to black and white.)
I can’t really remember 2 barns. Do you remember ER about wheat year one of them was struck by lightning?
I’m just going to guess that it was the early 80s when the barn closest to the house (my favorite) burned. I think the “Patchwork” photo was of a lean-to on the surviving barn. As I recall, that barn was still there until Grandma moved to town when it was sold for barnwood at the farm auction. I remember being in the near barn a number of times over the years but don’t ever remember going in the other one for some reason. I think maybe we were strongly discouraged from going in both of the barns?