title: The Barns of Maine: Our History, Our Stories
author:  Don Perkins 
description: "The Barns of Maine: Our History, Our Stories" tells how those barns developed in Maine, where they are located and how they are used. --Tom Atwell, <i>Portland Press-Herald</i>
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  # A BRAVE LITTLE QUAKERESS. A TRADITION OF THE
  
  
  REVOLUTION
  
  
  ### E. P. Roe
  
  
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  Not very far from the Highlands of the Hudson, but at a
  
  
  considerable distance from the river, there stood, one hundred years
  
  
  ago, a farmhouse that evidently had been built as much for strength
  
  
  and defence as for comfort. The dwelling was one story and a half in
  
  
  height, and was constructed of hewn logs, fitted closely together, and
  
  
  made impervious to the weather by old- fashioned mortar, which seems
  
  
  to defy the action of time. Two entrances facing each other led to the
  
  
  main or living room, and they were so large that a horse could pass
  
  
  through them, dragging in immense back-logs. These, having been
  
  
  detached from a chain when in the proper position, were rolled into
  
  
  the huge fireplace that yawned like a sooty cavern at the farther end
  
  
  of the apartment. A modern housekeeper, who finds wood 