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...restored village at Hancock, Mass., is currently the most fascinating of all the communities. In Tune, it opened its giant Round Stone Barn. Built in 1825, the barn was widely cited during the 1880s as "machinelike in its efficiency" and "a model for the soundest dairying practices." Settlers on the Great Plains dotted the Western frontier with timber versions of it-most of which have now rotted away. By the time the Hancock village was taken over by the Berkshires' Shaker Community, Inc. in 1960, huge cracks had appeared in the Shaker barn's walls and the interior...
Three Levels. The barn's design displays a canny combination of the practical and the monumental. Constructed of wood and stone within a 270-ft. circumference, it ranged cows and horses facing into a central core. At harvest time, wagons bearing fresh loads from the fields could enter by a separate driveway that led to the level above the stalls, then drive around the circle, distributing feed in the hayloft. A manure pit beneath the stable level permitted cow dung to fall through trapdoors and be easily carted away...
...presidential bedroom, for example, hangs an Impressionistic Flag Day by Childe Hassam, which is a holdover from the Kennedy Administration. Nixon also has a Red Barn painted by a previous occupant, Dwight Eisenhower. Tricia's room features a picture of azaleas, presented to her as 1968 Queen of the Norfolk Azalea Festival. Pat's taste is seen in the private sitting room and long hall. She has kept the Early American masterworks acquired by Jacqueline Kennedy and earlier tenants, but she particularly likes Impressionists and turn-of-the-century Americans. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has lent...
...Cash. From a three-room shack in Kingsland, Ark., the hard-pressed Cash family moved to Dyess, Ark., in 1935, when a New Deal colony opened up there. Like the other landless farmers who gathered in search of their American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes at supper we had to fill up on turnip greens and sometimes at breakfast it was just fatback and biscuits...
...poet said, in writing to Louis Untermeyer in January 1929, the farm looks "away to the north, so that you would know you were in the mountains." The barn as well looks away to the north, from a high point of land, and thus makes a perfect studio...