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	Barn raising - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barns were essential structures for storage of hay and keeping of horses and cattle, which in those days were an inseparable part of farming.
		A barn raising is a one or two-day event during which a community comes together to assemble a barn for one of its households.
		Barn raising as a method of providing construction labor had become rare by the close of the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barn_raising (775 words)

	Herrick Barn Raising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Raising of bent #2 as seen from the south side of the barn.
		Raising of the east purlin 2:45 PM Although of smaller dimensions than the plate, the work area was more awkward and the piece had to be lifted 6' high.
		The raising of the frame is the climax of barn construction.
	www.tier.net /nvhistory/barn/barn_raise.htm (3310 words)

	Meatball Wiki: BarnRaising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The goal may be of direct interest to a subset of the community, such as raising a new barn for an individual CommunityMember, or it may be a SuperordinateGoal, of interest to the entire community, such as a new school.
		A barn raising tends to be a situation where you raise the walls of a barn, then you have a big party with everyone who's around.
		In this sense, a barn raising was and is a one or two day event during which a community comes together to assemble a barn for one of its members.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?BarnRaising (3229 words)

	Home Improvement Online - Barn raising
		The term "barn raising" describes the construction of Barn (building)s since the 18th and 19th centuries in rural North America (U.S. and Canada).
		The tradition of "barn raising" continues, more or less unchanged, in some Amish and Mennonite communities, particularly in Ohio and some rural parts of Canada.
		A barn raising is a one- or two-day event during which a community comes together to assemble a barn for one of its households.
	www.home-improvement-online.co.uk /article/Barn-raising (736 words)

	Barn raising - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		In an effort to emphasize the rigorous requirements of 19th-century barn building, one section of the exhibition contains a variety of hand tools required for a barn raising, from axes for hand-hewing timbers to the barn spikes used to join them.
		Some barns were elaborate, such as the former estate of Bethlehem Steel founder Charles Schwab in Loretto, Cambria County, which has a compound of barns and outbuildings on one section of what was once his 1,000-acre retreat.
		That, and another newly constructed barn design -- a steel-framed, stone-veneered barn erected on the Oliver Miller Homestead in South Park -- are excellent examples of contemporary uses of the old tried-and-true barn designs, proving that the barn, old or new, will be with us for a long time.
	pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/events/s_428831.html (642 words)

	Barn raising historic - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Winnie Palmer adored spotting old barns in Pennsylvania, everywhere from Westmoreland County to her hometown of Bethlehem in Northampton County.
		Saunders and his wife, Amy Palmer Saunders, are leading an effort to reconstruct the century-old Smith family barn, formerly off Route 981 in Unity Township, to serve as the interior of an administrative and education center at the forthcoming Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve.
		Purchased from George Smith by the monastery in 1919, the barn was used by the Benedictine monks as a storage area for crops and eventually furniture up to the time of its dismantling, said the Rev. Earl Henry, prior of St. Vincent Archabbey.
	pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/westmoreland/s_432655.html (650 words)

	Barn raising - Dar
		This wiki is undergoing a Barn raising event right now, continuing until March 15th, please come and help get the DAR wiki off to a good start.
		The idea of 'barn raising' is to bring a group of people together at one specific time in order to build something collaboratively that couldn't be done by one person alone.
		We have the beginnings of a community, the beginnings of a Wiki and the barn raising has been convened in order to rapidly develop the Wiki and achieve critical mass for a sustainable launch of both.
	distributedresearch.net /wiki/index.php/Barn_raising (910 words)

	Heritage Barns - Raising a Barn page 1
		This well-preserved Dutch barn was originally built in New York state circa 1780.
		The anchor beams (the cross member of the H shaped bents) in this barn are 12"x24"x25 feet long, others timbers are as long as 40 feet.
		There are several days of preparation preceding a barn raising.
	www.heritagebarns.com /barn_raising1.html (156 words)

	The Barn Raising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The mural "The Barn Raising" by Wendell Jones, is Rome's NY legacy of the Federal Art Project of the New Deal.
		Pictured in the center (the main focal point) are men, along with older sons, collaborating to build, or raise a barn.
		A "barn raising" is a time when a new farmer will enter a town and all of the area's men come together to build a barn.
	lsb.syr.edu /projects/wpafolder/barnrais2.html (457 words)

	DARnet » Barn raising
		The idea of barn raising to launch a wiki is actually documented on the meatball community wiki:
		During the CPSquare conference on Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice, someone referenced Barn Raising as a means for the initial build-out on a wiki.
		I had no idea that when i used the word ‘barn raising” i was using an existing concept.
	distributedresearch.net /blog?p=59 (405 words)

	Amazon.com: Raising Yoder's Barn: Books: Jane Yolen,Bernie Fuchs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Yolen (The Girl in the Golden Bower) uses atmospheric metaphors?blisters are compared to "the barley in Mama's soup" and the barn grows "like a giant flower in the field." Her vision of the Amish seems rose-colored?not even the fire disturbs the underlying calm?but both the fire and the one-day barn-raising carry palpable excitement.
		The new barn glows golden in the light of the new moon; the jars of preserves on the kitchen counter gleam as the sun pours in.
		He tells of a lightning strike that burns his family's barn to the ground, and the resulting "barn raising" that their Amish community holds to help the family recover from the loss.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316075930?v=glance (1266 words)

	Barn Raising by Craig Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Barn Raising written and illustrated by Craig Brown.
		What happens next on the Amish farm on which the story is et is called a barn raising.
		Raising Yoder's Barn is set in the Amish community in Pennsylvania.
	www.geocities.com /craigbrown_2000/barn.html (192 words)

	Barn Raising
		Before three o'clock that third afternoon the men are gone and a solid barn sits on its slab.
		Essentially, two men have put up a barn in two and a half days, with the help of a crane truck and operator and a few other recruits.
		The outside surface of the sheathing as well as the doors and windows were primed beforehand.
	www.worldpath.net /~dikbrook/barn_raising.htm (487 words)

	Barn-raising/house-raising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This is a page mostly about the concept of Barn Raising in an on-line community sense, but has a lot of other good stuff.
		I've heard the term barn raising used for the new pilot mesh networks here in Chicago but the organization that running the show isn't very good at communicating what's going on so I don't know much yet.
		The job of this barn will be to provide a system of government for entertainment and what I might call "community therapy" -- similar to the work that Virginia Satir pioneered in family therapy, but on the scale of communities, so that individuals can be the best they can be.
	www.omidyar.net /group/hearts/news/9 (1352 words)

	Barn Raising & Rutledge Hardware
		His Barn Raising creations can be found for sale and display in stores up and down the East coast from Georgia to Connecticut.
		We came by the name Barn Raising naturally since our creations (Paul's furniture and my quilts) were originally "raised" in a barn.
		We were well established as the Barn Raising when we made our move to town so we kept the name.
	hometown.aol.com /pjgal2000/myhomepage/business.html (829 words)

	Barn Raising - The First Weekend
		The Lake Douglas Ranch started it's barn raising project on the weekend of June 25-27, 2004.
		With the help of a number of friends we were able to get the barn about half done.
		We'll be working to complete the barn over the 4th of July weekend.
	www.lakedouglasranch.com /barnraising1.htm (504 words)

	Barn Raising
		Mid-morning the first frame will be raised and the physical aspect of the barn raising will have started.
		The goal is to light the fire in the wood burning stove in the completed barn by a set afternoon deadline.
		On completion, some teams have used the barn for a party or dance; some even choose to sleep in it overnight.
	www.eventsmatter.co.uk /barn-raising.html (285 words)

	Homestead Craft Fair - Barn Raising
		On Friday and Saturday we’ll assemble and raise the wall beams of a eighteenth-century barn.
		Over the years, we have moved these eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings from various parts of the United States and rebuilt them at our farm, not out of a desire to live in the past but to preserve the good things of the past for the present and the future.
		This large barn came from Ohio and was built about 1870 from oak and chestnut timbers.
	www.homesteadcraftfair.com /barnraising.html (398 words)

	Barn Raising (One-Day Wonder)\| SmartMoney.com
		A sharp jump in profits for its October quarter and stunning same-store sales for November prompted Dress Barn (DBRN) to raise its guidance for the rest of its fiscal year.
		For its first quarter ended Oct. 29, Dress Barn's earnings soared 187% to $20.4 million, or 64 cents a share, mocking the Thomson First Call consensus estimate of 40 cents.
		The strong first-quarter results led Dress Barn to boost earnings guidance for its fiscal year ending July 29 to between $1.90 and $1.95 a share, from its previous guidance of $1.60 to $1.65.
	www.smartmoney.com /onedaywonder/index.cfm?story=20051130 (1001 words)

	Amish Barn Raising Photography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Traditionally done in the down time between planting and hay gathering, a barn-raising is the Amish community coming together to help and support its neighbors.
		It is also a very big social event, with the men taking part in the construction, while the women prepare a fantastic feast for everyone.
		At the end of the day, the men have miraculously built a brand new barn and everyone has had a wonderful and satisfying time helping neighbors.
	www.amishtown.com /AmishPhotos/barn_raising.htm (199 words)

	Raising Yoder's Barn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		But one day I thought about the barn-raising scene in the movie "Witness" and remembered all the wonderful barns we used to see as we drove on weekend holidays through Pennsylvania Dutch country.
		That's when I began to research Amish barns and barn-building, and wrote the story of a little Amish boy who wants to be big enough to help out.
		Activities for use with RAISING YODER'S BARN from TeacherViews.
	www.janeyolen.com /blurbs/raisingyb.html (378 words)

	eBay - barn raising, Decorative Collectibles, Postcards Paper items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Raising Yoder's Barn ~ Amish ~ Yolen ~ 1ST Ed.
		Amish Folks Barn Raising Lancaster County PA Postcard
		Poster Amish Workers barn raising Art Print Anise NR
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=barn+raising&newu=1&krd=1 (372 words)

	Barn Raising Campaign
		In addition, the greenhouses need to be re-skinned anyway and if we put a new floor in the big one, we can use it for more storage of squash, sweet potatoes, onions, and garlic for winter distributions (another 30lbs per share).
		Let's remember this is a BARN we are building, not a store, not Atkins, not Bread and Circus.
		This barn is unheated, so there shouldn't be any more utility costs.
	www.brookfieldfarm.org /Campaign.html (1557 words)

	Amish Barn-raising
		They and their five children had rescued the farm animals; none had perished in the flames.
		Neighbors would care for the cows, goats, and chickens until the new barn was built.
		They were comforted knowing that their close-knit Amish community would come together and help them build another barn.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_Grade5_7_1.html (846 words)

	Outdoor Classroom Barn Raising: Trusses
		, September 10, Pathways for Radford held an old-fashioned community "barn-raising." Just as rural communities have so often gathered in the past to raise a barn for one of the community's members, Radford folk gathered to raise an outdoor classroom for our own community.
		Many hands can make quick work of raising a barn; so too, many willing workers turned a skeleton into an outdoor classroom in a few hours.
		And just as a barn-raising draws a rural community closer together, our "barn-raising" forged friendships and fellowship among the citizens of our local community.
	www.radfordpl.org /wildwood/outdoor_classroom_p6.html (132 words)

	Barn Raising - The Second Weekend
		We'll be working to complete the barn as we're able over the next few weeks.
		We really just need to finish framing out the tack room and put gates on the stalls and then we'll be finished.
		A longer shot of the barn from the grove
	www.lakedouglasranch.com /barnraising2.htm (785 words)

	Rob Gardner: Modern barn raising
		Something semi-magical happens when people, normally known only as a voice on a teleconference or salutation in an email materialize in person and are available for the quick consultations when the questions come.
		My colleague Mike Wilde from Argonne Laboratory has often called this process "grid raising".
		Seems an appropriate thing to be doing on the Fermilab prairie, next to the Buffalo herd.
	qd.typepad.com /36/2005/12/modern_barn_rai.html (301 words)

	Art Poster Wood Framed Print - Barn Raising - Artist: Ann Mount- Poster Size: 17 X 13 - SHOP.COM
		Art Poster Wood Framed Print - Barn Raising - Artist: Ann Mount- Poster Size: 17 X 13
		This Poster is framed using a Black wood frame with no matte.
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	www.shop.com /op/aprod-p39776473 (169 words)

	NetLingo.com Dictionary of Internet Terms: Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Solving a difficult problem by pulling staff and resources from all corners of the company to come up with a solution.
		You may hear, "We need to do some barn raising in order to solve this dilemma."
		Reproduction in whole or in part requires written permission
	www.netlingo.com /right.cfm?term=barn+raising (46 words)

	Urban Barn Raising (Seattle Weekly)
		The Money Keeps Flowing — After federal reform, Washington's wealthy political donors find new outlets.
		Urban Barn Raising — While big developers work nearby, Cascade neighborhood residents preserve a block for eco-friendly renovation.
		When It Rains, There Are Pores — The state orders billionaire Paul Allen to fix the many leaks in Seahawks Stadium—or else.
	www.seattleweekly.com /news/0410/040310_news_cascade.php (1305 words)

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