"As Tobacco Fades, Barns Wilt," is the headline to this interesting feature story today in the Washington Post. A quote:
Some people can't imagine the landscape without old tobacco barns -- whether a bright red box popping out of a field in Virginia or an open barn up on a hill by the water in Southern Maryland, there to catch the winds that would cure the tobacco leaves and, in the old days, provide an easy slope for rolling the barrels down to the wharf. Sun glints off the tin roofs and casts angular shadows. Ivy creeps up the walls like flourishes of calligraphy on the wood.Posted by Marcia Oddi at February 15, 2004 07:38 PM