Barn Raising and Barn Razing

“Big as a barn”, “Were you born in a barn,” and that gratefully whispered hint, “Your barn door’s open” are often repeated phrases that probably came from generations who maybe did not live in a barn, but nonetheless spent a great deal of time working in that rural edifice. How many youngsters coughed and sputtered as they learned to smoke a swiped cigarette out behind the barn. And we all have heard hints of young lovers frolicking in a barn’s hay loft.