This weekend, I went to a wedding where I knew no one except the bride and groom. So I decided to make some new friends at my table … by asking them if they had a barn. (This is how I do research, see ...

Across the rolling fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the Midwest, one symbol appears again and again, stars painted proudly on barn fronts. They glint in sunlight, weather with age, and seem to hold ...