#barnraisers

[spookyxsam]

Barns & Blood Moons 🌙

[colfernarvaezwrites]

My Made by Lukas Barnraiser Campaign

[poetriarchy]

but can you believe barnraising used to be like a pretty common thing. can you imagine a neighbor a few doors down comes up to you and is like "you have to spend the next couple days building an actual giant barn with me for free". and there are serious social consequences for you if you don't build their barn

[firebatvillain]

At my friend's house for a BBQ and the neighbors picked today to do a barnraising. They have a bunch of friends and relatives over and the sounds of hammering, sawing etc are constant. It's an amazing experience lol

[greensparty]

Blu-Ray Review: Witness

To this day, the only Academy Award nomination Harrison Ford has received was for the 1985 film Witness. Doesn't that astound you that he was never nominated for Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Rick Deckard, Dr. Richard Kimble, or President James Marshall? Or even for smaller films like The Mosquito Coast or Regarding Henry? The film was directed by Peter Weir, who is one of those underrated directors who a lot of cinephiles never talk about but he's made some phenomenal movies like Dead Poets Society, Fearless and The Truman Show. This was just as he was starting to make Hollywood movies in the U.S. beyond his native Australia. When it was released in February 1985, it became a sleeper hit and in additional to multiple Oscar nominations it actually won for Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing. I, myself, didn't actually see it until video years later. It is now available on blu-ray in a special edition recently released from Arrow Films.

original movie poster

In mid-80s Philadelphia, an Amish widow Rachel (Kelly McGillis, later famous for Top Gun) and her 8-year-old son Samuel (a young Lukas Haas) make a rare trip out of their community in Lancaster, PA. While at a train station, Samuel is the only witness to a murder. Detective John Book (Ford) is assigned to protect them. As he is healing from wounds, he recovers in their community. He is exposed to a completely different world than the one he knows in another part of PA. He slowly becomes a part of the village and takes part in the barnraising. Oh and a young Viggo Mortensen makes his acting debut as one of the young Amish villagers.

Arrow Video's 2024 blu-ray

Watching this again, I was reminded how air-tight the screenplay is for this is. There is a reason you see this listed on the greatest screenplays of all time lists quite often. There is a serious contrast between the Amish and non-Amish and the audience is going through the eye-opening experience that Det. Book goes through, or should I say witnesses!?! The cast is top notch and Weir was at the top of his game. In terms of this blu-ray, there's some excellent features on this as well as some deleted scenes and trailers as well as commentaries. This is worth adding to your collection!

For info on Arrow Video's Witness

4.5 out of 5 stars

[albanybarn]

Don't forget to sign up for Lather 101, this Sunday brought to you by @blackkettlesoapco & @alittlecraftyalittletipsy. Make & take some amazing personalized soap. #albanybarn #liveworkinspire #lather101 #blackkettlesoap #barnraisers (at Albany Barn)

[ambrosevevers]

Wow! We have been busy this summer... Day 5 on site raising this barn with help from a couple of fellow artisan builders. Plenty of Earl grey tea and sour dough sandwiches on site near Bigbury, Devon. #timberframe #carpentry #barn #barnraising #douglasfir #locallygrown #timber #devon (at Aveton Gifford) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmwGpkKHbRI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ibrkdnoxgcwp

[blackberrycreekblog]

This #throwbackthursday brought to you by baby Barnaby. 😍 #barnabyquinn #goatiemuffin #goatsofinstagram #goatsofig #rescuedandloved #rescueddairygbaby #sanctuary #bekind #veganforhim #goatmilkisforgoatbabies #loveoneanother #goat #throwback #throwbackpic #veganfortheanimals #babypic #blackberrycreek #barnraising #lamancha #friendnotfood #tbt Photo circa 2016 by @marjib 💕 (at Blackberry Creek Farm Animal Sanctuary) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQgpOdBJ25X/?utm_medium=tumblr

[prinsez05]

if you pinch and zoom yn the pics in the middle you will see the Amish raising a barn #barnraising #farmland #amish #mennonite #lancaster #roadside #roadtrip #asseen #horseandbuggy #muleteam #goldenwheat (at Lancaster County, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBs1Kr6HP2r/?igshid=1dq1oypxmd2rz

[somediyprojects]

Told In a Garden: The Barnraising stitched by cricklewood_cross_stitcher. Pattern designed by Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum.

ThrowbackThursday! This is 'The Barnraising' by my all-time favorite designer, the late Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum, designing for Told In a Garden, #13 , ©️ 1995. I loved stitching this and made a few changes to make it my own: Gave all the men different colored beards and had them drinking lemonade rather than milk. Pretty sure I changed some colors in her quilts as well. 😃 Posting this is giving me the urge to start another Told in a Garden project! 🤍

[timothyhasletartist]

Beginning a new project: Ducken Barn! I start with a primed yellow canvas, which will provide a golden warmth throughout this nocturne. . . . #duckenbarn #oakharbor #whidbeyisland #whidbey #whidbeyislandartist #barnpainting #barnraising #wip #paintinginlayers #hasletstudio https://www.instagram.com/p/B558-QOlwTI/?igshid=1c1ece9v82h04

[bobbingoblin]

The barn is coming right along thanks to my dear carpenter. The whole building is already in use, but now that the first floor walls are sheeted, there is a bit more protection from the elements. . . #barnraising #diyconstruction #repurposedwindows #repurposeddoor #diybuilding #morework #metalroof #tallandnarrow #workshop #haystorage #milkingroom #goathome #chickenhome #barnca #multipurpose #carpentry #sturdyaf

[thesilverwheel]

And here is a photo of our barn when it was being built. 1961 #farmaesthetics #barn #hayloft #barnraising #farmcore #centuryfarm https://www.instagram.com/p/B1weHtCpPT0/?igshid=1fmrzncxe4mo9

[botlfarm]

The barn is going up! #perkabuildings #barn #farmimprovements #barnraising #barnbuilding #progress (at Ashford, Connecticut) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bypo6anpBgr/?igshid=5412d54njryo

[queerpyracy]

DY: You’ve written in a recent newsletter about your view that “White American liberal politics is more about class-and-educational signaling than it is about the actual act of making our society more livable and just.”  What are the telltale signs of signaling? What does the shift from signaling to action actually look like?

GB: Well, the biggest sign that what you’re doing “politically” is just in-group signaling is if the primary beneficiary is your own ego and/or reputation. Throughout history, rural and/or conservative communities have been really convenient sin-eaters for white progressives to show how much “better” they are than the “bad white people.” All we have ever had to do, even before social media, was to decry the backwards, hateful hicks. It’s literally my biggest pet peeve. At best, it’s all just sound and fury. At worst, it gives bad faith actors (like politicians or media personalities) the chance to say to folks in rural communities “see, they’re just laughing at you again! Vote for me or watch my network to protect you from the condescending elites!”

By contrast, the kind of politics that I’m interested in involves believing that every community is capable of positive change and being on the look-out for folks in those communities who are either doing that work or would like to do that work, and supporting them.

Here’s a great recent example, not from a rural community but from a place that’s often derided as being a backwards, white conservative place. Waukesha County, Wisconsin recently made the news because its school board voted to decline funds from the Federal Government to provide free lunch to all its students. The story went viral, in part because a few school-board members threw out some particularly vile, boneheaded quotes about kids getting “addicted” to free food. And most of that virality, at least online, was folks just yelling at what a terrible place Waukesha County must be and how these school board members deserved some kind of righteous punishment. That’s a textbook example of doing something that feels political but is actually just showing off how virtuous you are in contrast to some terrible foil.

Now, the piece of the story that most folks missed—and that very much did NOT go viral—is that the only reason this story made national press is because of the savvy media strategy of the parent advocacy group that was fighting to repeal the board’s decision. These were parents, in a very conservative county, waging a public relations campaign to get their community on board for what we often assume is an impossible sell in places like that: a universal government program. And the best piece of the whole story is that they won! The board reversed its decision! In an ideal world, it’s that piece of the story—what those activists did, what support they need for their next effort, how to replicate it in other communities—that we should be shouting from the roof tops! Sign me up for that vision of political action. The easy dunks on white people in “those places” though? Completely and totally unhelpful.

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[albanybarn]

Body Work: an exploration of gender, identity, and sexuality, has been on display for 6 weeks! In the final week of this shows run we will be conducting an artist talk with Albany based artist Rosy Sunshine. Please feel free to resfresh yourself with the show from 10-6 Monday-Friday or by appointment. #barnraisers #albanybarn #bodywork #rosysunshine #artisttalk (at Albany Barn)