Metal would ensure no more painting during his lifetime, and maybe mine. But the barn was built in the late 1800s when wood was far more plentiful than metal siding. It didn’t seem right.

Very large barns that hold hundreds of cows or pigs look more like hangars or warehouses, and may be built of metal. But the tradition of painting smaller barns red continues – so strongly that ...

Clark Byers, the former $3-a-week buttermilk bottler who traversed 19 states for more than three decades painting those slogans and others on some 900 barn roofs, has died. He was 89. Byers died ...

Very large barns that hold hundreds of cows or pigs look more like hangars or warehouses, and may be built of metal. But the tradition of painting smaller barns red continues—so strongly that the US ...