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I'm sure Vermonters will be interested to learn that their entire state is an historic district! 
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I'm sure Vermonters will be interested to learn that their entire state is an historic district!
Those of us in the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation only wish it was. Tradition dies hard up here in the hills, though, and many people continue to paint their old barns red (if they paint them at all). Red was, indeed, a cheap color (made from earth pigments). An interesting sidebar on barn painting -- Ever see big white diamonds painted on barn doors? That's so Farmer John can see where the door is in driving snow or dark of night. Anyway, most new barns I see do tend to be other colors, particularly white.
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Michigan still has red barns, but you also see white ones, plus farm buildings not constructed in the traditional gambrel-roof style. (And, this being Spartan country, I suppose we have our share of GREEN ones )
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the most obscure word i've ever seen is "lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaome-
litokatakaechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalli-
okigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon", which Aristophanes used in Ecclesiazusae to mean some sort of strange hash comprised of two-week old leftovers. fuzzy meatloaf, anyone??
somehow i suspect this is a YART.
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Dear bridget96: be glad no teacher made you write that on the blackboard twenty times.
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New England does not have many farms left but here and there red barns are seen.
Mostly though, the barns are left to "weather" producing a lovely soft grey color in many cases .... then when barn falls or ceases its farm use the farmers can sell the "barn boards" to all the yuppies and tincs.
Canny, these Yankees.
wow
tincs = plural of "two incomes no children"
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Write it once, you've *written* it 20 times
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It used to be possible, sometimes, to do a barn-raizing and get a lot of very sturdy timber and rare wide boards on the cheap. Does KMart mean "death" in some proto-European language?
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No, but WalMart means death to small town stores.
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