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The Harlem Public Library and Harlem Senior Center will host Montana Conversations program "Hand-Raised: The Historic Barns of Montana" With Christine Brown on March 20, 2018. The program will be at the Harlem Public Library meeting room at 7 P.M. The presentation is free and open to the public. Funding for the Montana Conversations program is provided by Humanities Montana through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Montana's Cultural Trust, and private donations.

The historic barns of Montana are a threatened part of our heritage. To capture their history and encourage their preservation, Chere Jiusto, Christine Brown and photographer Tom Ferris collaborated on the award-winning book Hand Raised: Historic Barns of Montana, released by Montana Historical Society Press in 2011. Montana Preservation Alliance (MPA) championed this decade-long project, which traces the agricultural history of Big Sky Country and celebrates the craftsmanship that went into building these icons of rural life. This conversation includes an overview of Montana's barn-building history, stunning photographs of barns from across the state, and the stories attached to some of Montana's most memorable, photogenic, and historic barns.

Christine W. Brown is an architectural historian with 18 years of experience documenting and evaluating rural historic properties. As outreach and education director at Montana Preservation Alliance since 2006, she promotes the preservation of Montana's historic buildings and places.

Everyone is welcome to this informative and entertaining presentation. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, please call the Harlem Public Library at 353-2712.