About the Author:
About the Photographer
Luella Hazeltine was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1929. She has lived in Linn County all of her life. After high school graduation, she worked for Quaker Oats for forty years, where her husband was also employed. He was also a honey producer for a while. After her retirement, Luella spent the next decade, and more, finding and photographing the barns in this book.
Luella shot the majority of the photographs, but her nieces, Rachael Strickel and d Lyse Abukaf, also played a hand in taking a few of the photographs. When Luella viewed a public television show about barns, she was inspired to find out more about them in her home state of Iowa. She began gathering the photos in 1993. Penfield Books asked to publish them to preserve in print Iowas agricultural heritage. The negatives are Luellas gift to the State Historical Society of Iowa.
About the Editor, Deb M. Schense
An Iowan all her life, Deb Schense grew up on a farm (with a late 1800s barn) northeast of Waverly, Iowa. She earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in computer programming from Kirkwood Community College and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from the University of Iowa.
Since graduating, Deb has worked in corporate America, the federal government, computer consulting, and self-employment. She is an author of Eastern Iowas Historic Barns and Other Farm Structures: Including the Amana Colonies with two editions: black-and-white, and color. She is working on a comedy screenplay and book entitled Extended Vacation.
Review:
In an agricultural society, the barn is a fundamental structure that was adapted to a diversity of tastes, materials, architectural experiments, and distinctive styles. History in the form of farm buildings, Barns Around Iowa: A Sampling of Iowas Round Barns is a superbly produced collection of photographs about Iowas round barns, which had once numbered well over two hundred thousand. One thousand of these barns vanish annually and only a fraction of that original two hundred thousand number remains. A piece of heritage and personal history, Barns Around Iowa is a sad farewell to what use to make up so much of what America held dear - its agricultural history and architecture. ----Midwest Book Review Oregon, WI
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