The Barns of Erie County

By David Nelson and Marilyn Nelson

For the barn lover, this book is a feast for the eyes! Contained in these pages is a collection of the incredible diversity of barns found in the Erie County area of Pennsylvania. Many of the barns you see in these pages have fallen victim to the wind and weather found off the shores of Lake Erie and no longer exist. Owning a record of them in such a beautiful format is a valuable asset to any collection of images of American rural landscape. Combined with artistic composition and the process of high-dynamic-range photography, it makes for a must-have coffee table book that any barn lover would be proud to own.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524554897

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Copyright © 2016 by David and Marilyn Nelson. 663906

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016917943

ISBN:   Softcover           978-1-5245-5488-0

              Hardcover         978-1-5245-5487-3

              EBook               978-1-5245-5489-7

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Rev. date: 01/11/2017

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Dedication

We dedicate this book

To those that have built them

And to the vigilance of those

Who are the guardians

Of the iconic symbols

Of our rural heritage.

Foreword

When I was a senior at McDowell High in Erie, Pennsylvania, my father owned a janitorial supply company, and I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to deliver supplies all over Erie County. As I drove the van through the countryside, I marveled at the beauty of the idyllic country scenes and the amazing barns that had been built around the turn of the century. Take any back road and before long, you would come upon a farm that obviously was cared for and still had working families engaged in making a living, running a farm and caring for crops and livestock. As did most of my peers, I left the Erie area to seek my future and fortune