Tuttle’s Red Barn, is a true story about a family barn that has been in the family for over 400 years. It follows the family from when the first one came over all the way up to when the book was published in 2003 (give or take on that last year). That makes this barn the oldest barn in America, pretty impressive, huh?
It’s a great chance to do a timeline activity and that’s just what we did. I scanned images from the book and we put them in order on sentence strips.
It was a real struggle on some of the pictures to figure out where it went in the timeline. Some pictures were easy to figure out, if it had a car it was more recent, but there were many times it could have been in different places. We found ourselves double checking the book very often.
I love the story and was talking with the other Mom about how cool it would be to visit there someday. She went home and looked up this family on the internet and we were both so sad to learn that it’s currently for sale because the next generation isn’t interested in taking up the family farm. Isn’t that sad?
That is sad. I've watched so much of my families homesteads go the same way due to lack of interest of the younger generation to farm.
That is very sad. Coming from a farm family that left farming, though, I understand why the younger generation isn't interested. Maintaining farm is a LOT of work – and risk, since the weather basically runs the farm and you can't control or really predict the weather!
That is sad.
Get that linked up to Study America Saturday! I am TOTALLY doing that book and activity when we study New Hampshire!
How neat to have it stay in a family for that long.
Very interesting. Too bad that new generation is walking away from so many years of history.
I am going to have to look for that book!
Thanks for sharing! I am very interested in this book as we are enjoying several farms this time of year and working on the concepts of timelines in prep of a large dinosaur unit/timeline we are soon working on.
I am new to your blog! Looking forward to reading often!
I love your timeline. What a great way to revew the events of the story.