Category: Barns
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Take a second look at Ohio’s barns before they disappear
Barn painter Scott Hagan is shown painting a barn at Malabar Farm State Park as part of the original Bicentennial Ohio Barn program. (Credit: Ken Drenten) By Ken Drenten Barns are my kind of my shy first love — the kind you’re afraid to admit, but there it is. There is a rustic, honest, gritty,…
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Malabar Farm sustains lifelong dream of Louis Bromfield
The Main Barn at Malabar Farm. (Credit: Ken Drenten) By Ken Drenten Malabar Farm State Park is no ordinary farm. Located just east of Mansfield, the farm is the legacy of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who made his dreams come true. Louis Bromfield, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Early Autumn in 1926, established the…