Reply #17: Grandparents farm was sold to a coal company [View All]

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The beautiful fields and wooded areas were stripped of coal and "reclaimed" into fields of bland nothing. The barn, house, outbuildings and garden have all disappeared. It is now just a stark empty nothing area.

The farm where I grew up was split into four divisions. I no longer recognize the Victorian house that I lived in. I still dream of the adventured my brothers and I had in the old post and beam barn with its beautiful hewn and pegged beams. The barn collapsed from neglect after we moved.

When we bought the home we lived in more than thirty years ago I could look out on an enormous corn field. The field is now a housing development with huge homes on postage sized lots. I feel like I'm walking through a canyon of tan siding and tan bricks when I go down those streets.

I miss the corn. I miss the barn. I miss the farms. The world is not better because they are gone.