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An image that has appeared in print at least once and continues to show up on television features and documentaries is
one that was originally taken outside of Horton, Kansas between l935 and l940 by J.W."Wes" McManigal, appearing in the l974
Stephen Greene Press (originally of Brattleboro, VT) book, "Farm Town."
| Farm Town, A Memoir of the l930s |
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| Stephen Greene Press: imprint of Viking Penguin div of Penguin Putnam, Inc., NY NY 800 331-4624 |
This book happens to be one of the best photo documentaries of farm and small town life of this era that exists, in quality
of pictures and subject matter (both as stand-alone art and in context). Truly heartwarming and wholesomely nostalgic.
[availability unknown] In it on page 20 is the following picture: (of higher quality than appears here, due
to Moire problems)
| Farm outside of Horton, Kansas |
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| Farm Town, p. 20, Stephen Greene Press, l974 |
The Indiana University Press published a book, "A Pictorial History of Indiana," by Dwight W. Hoover in l980 (below).
| A Pictorial History of Indiana |
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| Indiana University Press, l980 |
In this book is the following picture on page 114:
| NOT Purdue University's farm's barn..... |
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| A Pictorial History of Indiana, p 114, Indiana University Press, l980 |
Though Purdue indeed had and has numerous experimental farms, barns and properties, this particular barn should
never again appear in print or on TV being passed off as being theirs or located in Indiana now that the truth be
known!
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