It's been a while since I've featured a Rock City barn on this blog. This is one that hasn't been shown before. I call it a "lost" barn because it had been lost from Rock City's records. I've found more than 50 such barns; some because people told me about them, and some because I went looking for them along the old roads.
Returning from a trip to Indiana to visit family in July 1997, I was traveling a section of old U.S.Highway 31W that I hadn't been on since the Rock City Barn project began. Actually, I had traveled the old north-south routes such as U.S. 31E, 31W, 41, and 41A many times, but that was before the interstates and before I became interested in Rock City barns as anything other than occasionally-sighted curios.
On this particular day I was staying off Interstate 65 as much as possible and following U.S. 31W when I sighted this barn on my left as I was driving southbound near milepost 25, about 10 miles north of Bowling Green.
I was using a Canon EOS A2 camera with the Canon EF 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 lens. The film was Fujichrome 100, which partly accounts for the lush green of the grass.
This is one of about 50-55 barns which will be in my Lost Barns of Rock City book, if I can ever get my act together and get it published!
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The second edition of my book, Backroads and Byways of Georgia will be released in June, 2023.
Photography and text copyright 2023 David B.Jenkins.
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I had a Canon A2e for a while. It was terrific. I didn't take to the other EOS cameras I tried but the A2e resonated with me instantly.
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I really liked my Canon A2s. Used them for eight years until switching to digital. Still have one of them.
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