[MassHistPres] Suggestions Requested For Interesting Historic Properties and Sites

[Judy Markland]

Many of us in the Connecticut Valley drive right by dozens of (cigar 
wrapper) tobacco  barns every day without thinking about their significance 
in the economic development of the Valley and their interesting 
architecture.  The barns are always long and relatively low with doors at 
either end so wagons or tractor loads of tobacco can drive through to be 
hung from the beams and cross-poles in the interior.  The long sides are 
vented with flaps that open at the bottom to let air circulate.  It's a 
unique type of architecture for a unique crop, and a crop that has gone 
through boom and bust cycles here for at least the last 150 years.

Judy Markland
Whately

At 01:55 PM 1/28/2016, Susan Brauner wrote:
>I have been asked by an author researching a book to request
>suggestions from the Listserve.
>
>The premise of the book is about overlooked Massachusetts historic
>structures and sites we tend to walk by, but actually have an
>interesting story associated with them.  A professional photographer
>will be used in the project.
>
>I will send on all replies to the author.
>
>Thank you.
>
>
>
>Susan Parker Brauner
>Art Preservation Officer
>Boston Public Library/East Boston
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