Ever drove down the countryside and wondered why all the barns are painted red? The answer, like most things, lies in our history. New England settlers didn't have enough money to paint their farms.

Beginning with the earliest American settlements and continuing into the 18th century, most barns weren't painted at all. Early American barn builders took sun exposure, temperature, moisture, wind, ...

I was just about to dash out the front door, well before sunrise last Saturday, when I remembered what happened in the past when I wore my favorite Columbus Blue Jackets “White Out” T-shirt in public.

In the decade since property owners across Ohio allowed their barns to become canvases to celebrate the state’s bicentennial, some of those wall-size logos have faded, others have been repainted and ...

If you’ve ever driven a winding back road through Appalachia, past weathered fence posts, rolling hay fields and barns silvered by decades of sun, you may have noticed a burst of color fixed high ...

It's an iconic blast from Illinois' past, representing comfort in a rural setting that features a dairy barn and silo, a horse barn, a pioneer home and a one-room schoolhouse surrounded by acres of ...