Inside The Effort To Save Hoosier Barns

FPI News

INDIANAPOLIS – At first, Kent Yeager noticed the losses the way many other Hoosiers probably have – through his windshield.

Driving the winding two-lane highways and narrow country roads through southern Indiana, he would pass barns he had recognized as local landmarks for decades and realize they were quickly fading from the landscape.

One had a caved-in roof. Another leaned sharply after years of neglect. Others had simply vanished, leaving farmland or suburban sprawl where towering wooden structures once stood like rural cathedrals…

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