On a Sunday spin in the country, one of the scenic delights used to be the handsomely weather-beaten, quaintly dilapidated barns that lined rural roads. The pleasure is fast vanishing. From New ...

Venturing out in the rural Connecticut landscape, there are reminders of the agricultural age that dominated the landscape. Farms that once used their land for raising livestock and growing crops have ...

The market for large trophy houses in the English countryside has foundered. Many buyers consider their very own Downton Abbeys too large and expensive to run. But a humbler country cousin is on the ...

While exploring and photographing old barns for his book "Old Barns and Country Skills," Derek P. Brereton discovered there are craftsmen choosing to practice skills derived from the same era as the ...

One Saturday night in 1928, a WLS announcer thanked a Texas rancher for sending an old cowbell to the Chicago radio station. It wasn’t unusual to give a shoutout to a listener, and the gift was a nod ...