As farming machinery and practices have changed through the years, it has had an impact on the use of the old timber framed barns. In “From Horses to Combines – A Century of Life on the Farm”, we look at those changes as well as stories of life on the farm in general over the last 100 to 150 years. If you have worked or are actively working a family farm this book is a tribute to your lifestyle. To those who grew up on the farm and left or remember visiting your grandparent’s farm, it is meant to refresh those memories. To future generations and the current one that has only heard the stories of how it was in the ‘good old days’; the proof is in the pictures, and this book will preserve those times from the past. The 122 scrapbook style pages of this book contains over 150 black & white and 100 color photos of farming through the years, featuring 60 barns, mills and other related businesses from the authors rural countryside of Clearfield and Jefferson Counties in Western Pennsylvania.
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