The punishing winter dealt an awful blow to a valued part of America that was already in trouble – barns. Nobody has counted them yet, but many thousands of barns are believed to have collapsed due to the heavy accumulation of snow and ice, not yet even melting. You can’t drive anywhere here without seeing more barns falling apart. Rural life in America is in trouble, bleeding to death slowly in the urban-industrial economic system that has small farms going broke while millions of Americans flock to superstores to buy their groceries from other countries.

Most of these barns will be torn down, nobody has the money to replace them. It is painful to see each one. I hope to take some photos of a few.