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As a 4-year-old in the summer of 1935, Mike Rookstool observed his father and a crew of workmen unload hay into a barn. “A horse pulled on a rope that went into the barn and that made a fork come down to pick up a bunch of hay,” Mike says. “A guy ins
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Round And Round
Why do we love barns? I have no explanation for my own obsession, but I’ve found a red barn with a story more interesting than any I could have imagined. I spotted this intriguing building, a round barn, along Interstate 90 in western South Dakota, n

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