The Kansas Barn Alliance will be hosting BarnFest 18 on Sept. 21 to 22 in Damar, Kansas, and rural areas of Rooks, Graham and Phillips counties.
The Sept. 21 events will be held at the Damar Community Building at 107 Main Street in Damar. Feature presentations on relocating or moving a barn, methods of recreating historic barn features with a saw mill, tips on successfully painting old wood and making barn quilt artwork to hang on barns. Dennis Rogers will speak on “Spirit and Place.” The evening event will be the “Home on the Range” movie at the McKenna Center.
The second day will be a car pool tour of historic barns in Rooks, Graham and Phillips Counties. The day starts at the Damar French Quarter at 8:30 a.m. with the barn tour leaving at 9 a.m. The barns to be toured include: Hilgers Barn; Nicodemus National Park; Davis Barns; Gottchalk Barn; Eichman Barn; Diana Nickelson Barn; Harry Keith Barn and the Cottonwood Ranch.
Barn owners and supporters throughout Kansas are encouraged to attend and learn about methods of barn maintenance and restoration.
Participants may choose to attend one or both days of BarnFest 18. Registration and additional information is online at KansasBarnAlliance.Org. Register prior to August 31 to save on registration.
The Kansas Barn Alliance promotes barn restoration throughout Kansas.