A barn raising, DeKalb County, Indiana, USA, about 1900
A barn raising, also historically called a raising bee or rearing in the U.K., is a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community. Barn raising was particularly common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America. A barn was a necessary structure for any farmer, for example for storage of cereals and hay and keeping of animals. Yet a barn was also a large and costly structure, the assembly of which required more labor than a typical family could provide. Barn raising addressed the need by enlisting members of the community, unpaid, to assist in the building of their neighbors' barns. Because each member could ask others for help, reciprocation could eventually reasonably be presumed for each participant if the need were to arise.
The tradition of "barn raising" continues, more or less unchanged, in some Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities, particularly in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and some rural parts of Canada. The practice continues outside of these religious communities, albeit less frequently than in the 19th century. Most frames today are raised using a crane and small crew.
A barnraising, also historically called a raising bee or rearing in the U.K., is a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members...
Look up raising in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Raising may refer to: Raising (syntax), a syntactic construction Raising (sound change), a sound change...
frontier pursuits as chopping wood and raising a barn. Film critic Stephanie Zacharek has called the barn-raising sequence in Seven Brides "one of the most...
give their users an award called a "barnstar" as a continuation of the "barnraising" metaphor. The practice originated on MeatballWiki and was adopted by...
result, the term barn is often qualified e.g. tobacco barn, dairy barn, cow house, sheep barn, potato barn. In the British Isles, the term barn is restricted...
traditional barnraising and an old-fashioned country wedding. The musical ran on Broadway in 1955–56, and has been produced yearly at the Round Barn Theatre...
typically be invited to take part in the roofing party, similar to a barnraising in the United States. The Norwegian term dugnad denotes an established...
members with time-consuming or arduous tasks. Examples might include a barnraising, harvests, or assistance for the elderly or sick. The majority of Cajun...
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provided manual labour to others, especially for major projects such as barnraising, "bees" of various kinds (see § Bee below), log rolling, and subbotniks...
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the barn" which now represents weak hitters instead of wild pitchers. The traditional red barn was built as a "community barnraising" to raise awareness...
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facilitate school desegregation in the city of Durham, North Carolina. Barnraising Shturmovshchina Talkoot Workshop Online Compendium of Free Information...
logs. In this way, it is similar to a barn-raising where a neighbor comes and helps a family build their barn, and, in turn, that family goes and returns...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical. Film critic Stephanie Zacharek called the barn-raising sequence in Seven Brides "one of the most rousing dance numbers ever...
insurance. An example of such support is barnraising, in which the entire community gathers together to build a barn in a single day. In 1961, the United...
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A bank barn or banked barn is a style of barn noted for its accessibility, at ground level, on two separate levels. Often built into the side of a hill...
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