barn raisings

Examples of barn raisings in the following topics:

• Pioneer Women

  • They often sponsored activities that combined work, food, and entertainment such as barn raisings, corn huskings, quilting bees, Grange meetings, and church and school functions.

• Women in the West

  • Two additional hours were spent cleaning the barn and chicken coop, milking the cows, caring for the chickens, and tending the family garden.
  • People living in rural areas created rich social lives for themselves, often sponsoring activities that combined work, food, and entertainment, such as barn raising, corn husking, quilting bees, Grange meetings, church activities, and school functions.

• Social Networking Services

  • Acknowledge that many of these services are not open source; times have changed, the train has left the barn or the horse has left the station or whatever.

• The Acts of Parliament

  • The colonies disputed the legality of this act since it seemed to violate the Bill of Rights of 1689, which forbade taxation without representation and the raising and/or keeping of a standing army without the consent of Parliament.
  • The new Quartering Act similarly allowed a governor to house soldiers in other buildings, such as barns, inns, among other unoccupied structures, if suitable quarters were not provided.

• Cistercian Architecture

  • This new "architecture of light" was intended to raise the observer "from the material to the immaterial" – it was, according to the 20th century French historian Georges Duby, a "monument of applied theology."
  • In the 12th and 13th centuries, Cistercian barns consisted of a stone exterior, divided into nave and aisles either by wooden posts or by stone piers.

• Utopian Communities

  • Shaker communities aimed for self-sufficiency, raising food and making all that was necessary, including furniture that emphasized excellent workmanship as a substitute for worldly pleasure.
  • Lane purchased what was known as the Wyman farm and its 90 acres, which also included a dilapidated house and barn.

• Problems

  • Parallel to Emma's time axis draw the walls of the barn in pencil.The barn is 4.5 meters wide in Emma's frame.
  • Erase a portion of the barn walls to allow Kara's ladder to fit through.
  • Using the diagram, explain how Kara and Emma can understand how the too-long ladder fits in the too-small barn.

• B.4 Chapter 4

  • Parallel to Emma's time axis draw the walls of the barn in pencil.
  • The barn is 4.5 meters wide in Emma's frame.
  • Erase a portion of the barn walls to allow Kara's ladder to fit through.
  • Using the diagram, explain how Kara and Emma can understand how the too-long ladder fits in the too-small barn.
  • Emma sees the ladder inside the barn with the two doors closed at the same time.

• Farming As Big Business

  • Urban and suburban Americans continue to rhapsodize about the neat barns and cultivated fields of the traditional rural landscape, but it remains uncertain whether they will be willing to pay the price -- either in higher food prices or government subsidies to farmers -- of preserving the family farm.

• Selling to Consumers

  • Thus, the more common B2C business models are the online retailing companies such as Amazon.com, Drugstore.com, Beyond.com, Barnes and Noble, and Toys-R-Us.