Famous Farceur barn is featured in film

DES MOINES—The Barn Raisers, a new documentary by Mid-America Emmy® nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, is an Official Selection at the Interrobang Film Festival and will be showcased free on Saturday, June 24 at 3 p.m. at the Des Moines Central Library, 1000 Grand Avenue. Festival information is available at desmoinesartsfestival.org/interrobangfilmfestival.

  The Barn Raisers tells the story of Midwestern barns by examining them through the lens of architecture. The film explores what building methods, barn styles, and materials tell us about the people who built them, the life they lived, and the role these “country cathedrals” played in the settling and building of the Nation.  The Barn Raisers is a companion film to the Rundles’ Emmy® nominated historical documentary Country School: One Room – One Nation.

  A number of Iowa barns are featured in the documentary including Iowa’s oldest barn located in St. Donatus; the barn on the C.G. Good Farm in Ogden where the famous Belgian Stallion Farceur is buried; architect/builder Benton Steele’s last remaining round barn in Iowa, and many others.

Read more in the June 21 issue of The Ogden Reporter.