Category: Farm Life

  • The Passing of the Sumner County Fair

    The Passing of the Sumner County Fair

    Many of us have fond memories of a night at the Sumner County Fair. The Fair offered contests to enter, the opportunity to show prized livestock, pageants to enjoy, midway rides, and lots of strange foods. Read of its passing in this story and of another fair that was once a staple in Westmoreland for…

  • It’s Just An Old Barn

    “It’s just an old barn.”   And because that is what it has become, it and countless others like it are disappearing from our landscapes and our memories.  Their destruction has become a part of the transformation from rural to urban, from sleepy farm roads to suburban thoroughfares, and from farms to subdivisions.   The one featured…