Not sure this was a barn but this catches my eye always on our way to Dodge.I can't get a real good close up,but did what I could.
Interesting building. If I were to make up a story about it, I would say it could be a pump house with a windmill tower that lost its blades.
I LOVE that. I put up a couple of murals in my houses. Wish I'd have seen that one! I have a cow applique that would work well with it.
Where Does the Phrase 'Barn Burner' Come From? From politics to 'a very exciting event' "The 'Barnburners' were one of two competing factions in the New York State Democratic Party in the middle of the 19th century. The name was “in allusion to the story of an old Dutchman who relieved himself of rats by burning his barns which they infested.” "In the modern parlance a barn burner is defined as "a very exciting game, event, etc." The earliest citation in our files for this use is from 1934": " A real “barn-burner” was the following hand, which provided plenty of excitement at the evening session. —Omaha World-Herald, 13 May, 1934" "It should be noted that the barn burner here is a game of bridge, which perhaps gives fodder to those of us who think that the 1930s were a simpler time, and that our ancestors found certain things more exciting than we do today. Today barn burner is often used to describe a sporting event or some other contest, such as a political race, which occasions a good deal of excitement." READ MORE
Barn-burning reminds me of the movie The Long Hot Summer. Ben Quick (Paul Newman) was accused of being a "barn burner," which was apparently a revenge tactic common in the 1950s South.
South Dakota, March 2-5, 1966 Blizzard Reminds How Much Pig Farmers Care by Kevin Schulz, National Hog Farmer, 1/22/20 " As the winds howled and the snow swirled around our yard over the weekend, the flashbacks took me to when I was a kid, raising hogs in less than ideal housing, at least not for an upper Midwest farm. Think converted dairy barn with deep bedding. The hogs were comfortable, we made sure of that, but when the temperatures dipped so low waterlines would freeze. We had to run kettles of boiling water from the house out to the barn, hoping the water would still be warm enough to thaw the water in the hydrants. Depending on the conditions, this process needed to be repeated until water was again flowing freely to fill the stock tank. If the weather didn't turn, we were back out in a couple of hours, repeating the thaw cycle. The facilities that I speak of are what a lot of today's society believe our producers should be resorting back to. This is not an option. Why? Because hog producers care about the animals under their watch. They always have, they always will."