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The Walkabout / The Great Barn

A place on the Walkabout map

The Great Barn.

The real red barn, photographed outside and in.

The real red barn beneath a broad Michigan sky

Some places already
hold the story.

The big red barn is already part of the world we’re wandering through. Its familiar shape needs no new disguise. The illustrated map brings us here; the real barn gives us somewhere to arrive.

Find the barn along the route ↗

Through the doors.

Step into the photographs: weathered boards, timber beams, a ladder reaching upward, and daylight finding its way through the doors. This is the real Great Barn.

The white doors of the Great Barn.
The white doors of the Great Barn.
Daylight through the barn doors, seen from inside.
Daylight through the barn doors, seen from inside.
The wooden ladder and high timber frame.
The wooden ladder and high timber frame.
Light between the weathered boards.
Light between the weathered boards.
Looking upward at the beams above the doors.
Looking upward at the beams above the doors.
Another view of the roof and supporting timbers.
Another view of the roof and supporting timbers.

Select a photograph to see the full view.

Where will the path go next?

Return to the Walkabout to move between its places and people.

← Back to the Walkabout

Where to next?

The Woods ↗Return to the woods ↗