This afternoon I went on a photo adventure. I had my camera with me at lunch and a fellow customer asked if I wanted to take pictures of round barns. (Vernon County, WI has more round barns than any other county in the US.) That's how I met Kristi & Craig King. They own one of the remaining 10 round barns. She told me to go to their farm and tell her husband she sent me. This is their barn. Seven years ago they left Naperville, IL and moved to WI. They have been restoring this barn ever since they bought it.
I started asking where I could get a map of the other barns and eventually ended up at the store of a local artist who has painted each of the barns. Her husband is a historian and he did the research for the book about each of the barns. He was happy to sell me the book with a map and couldn't stop telling me about the various characteristics of some of them. I saw four more on my way home and hope tp see the other five before I leave Wisconsin.
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