Berkshire Botanical Garden holds 'barn raising' to dedicate new timber-frame structure. Local experts Scott Brockway and Adam Miller shed light on the art of the longstanding building method By Tony ...

NEWTOWN — The mother of a slain Sandy Hook first grader drove the first birch peg into the timber frame with a large wooden mallet, sending rings through a stand of cathedral pines to the delight of a ...

A 21st century barn raising is underway at Merck Forest and Farmland Center in Rupert, where a crew is assembling a new barn.

John Ebersole’s workshop, deep in the countryside of Christiana, smells of wood warmed by late-morning winter sunlight. It’s not a large space. Three visitors, plus Ebersole, are enough to make it a ...

TAKES A VILLAGE: Barron Brown directs a crew at a barn raising near Marshall. Photo by Storms Reback It’s not every day you get invited to a barn raising, so when I did, I jumped at the opportunity.