{"id":206831,"date":"2025-04-26T12:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T12:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/book-review-eric-sloanes-an-age-of-barns-book-reviews\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T12:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T12:59:35","slug":"book-review-eric-sloanes-an-age-of-barns-book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=206831","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Eric Sloane&#8217;s An Age of Barns &#8211; Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"sfj_article-header\">\n<div class=\"sfj_article-thumb\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/smallfarmersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sfj_book_review_an_age_of_barns_00.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Book Review Eric Sloanes An Age of Barns\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"sfj_article-info\">\n<h2>Book Review: Eric Sloane\u2019s An Age of Barns<\/h2>\n<p> <!-- attribution --><!-- social --><\/div>\n<p> <!-- sfj_article-info -->\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- sfj_article-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearA\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1163\" height=\"937\" src=\"https:\/\/smallfarmersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sfj_book_review_an_age_of_barns_01.jpg\" alt=\"Book Review Eric Sloanes An Age of Barns\" class=\"wp-image-169636\"\/><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book Review: Eric Sloane\u2019s An Age of Barns<\/h3>\n<p><strong>My Favorite Barn Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by Lynn R. Miller of Singing Horse Ranch<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I was a young dreamer of farms I had an unquenchable hunger for books on the subject, especially those which fed my poetic notions of the vocation. And amongst the books which started me off, I loved the picture books of the late Eric Sloane best. And from those I prized at the top my copy of his barn book.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"777\" src=\"https:\/\/smallfarmersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sfj_book_review_an_age_of_barns_02.jpg\" alt=\"Book Review Eric Sloanes An Age of Barns\" class=\"wp-image-169637\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Sloane was a lover of history and tools and architecture and the handmade. He was a consumate artist and filled his historical drawings with an almost tender accuracy which always rewards the tinker in each of us.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/smallfarmersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sfj_book_review_an_age_of_barns_03.jpg\" alt=\"Book Review Eric Sloanes An Age of Barns\" class=\"wp-image-169638\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The folks at Voyageur Press <em>[seems to be out of business \u2013 2025]<\/em> have done us all a favor by bringing back into print this magical treatise on barns and sheds. Sloane\u2019s precise and lovely ink renderings still transport me back to those early musings. An Age of Barns belongs in your library if your interest includes the marriage of the practical and the beautiful in reverent attendance with history.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1263\" height=\"1018\" src=\"https:\/\/smallfarmersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sfj_book_review_an_age_of_barns_04.jpg\" alt=\"Book Review Eric Sloanes An Age of Barns\" class=\"wp-image-169639\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>This soft cover volume features 94 large pages of Sloane\u2019s story pictures.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1198\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/smallfarmersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sfj_book_review_an_age_of_barns_05.jpg\" alt=\"Book Review Eric Sloanes An Age of Barns\" class=\"wp-image-169640\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review: Eric Sloane\u2019s An Age of Barns Book Review: Eric Sloane\u2019s An Age of Barns My Favorite Barn Book by Lynn R. 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