re: #183 Barefoot Grin

I grew up in Champaign, but lived for a few years in Quincy for my dad’s work. A lot of my cousins farmed from Adams county through to south of Peoria. But none do now. As you well know—big ag took over. My grandmother’s sister’s farm had a great iconic round barn in the area.

When I was a child, and we first moved to Champaign, there were several round barns, and we lived with that wonderful big one at the west end of town. It was a pony farm then, and I was in heaven! Later they tore down that magnificent house (it was fantastic) and made the round barn into a restaurant. I used to love to play in it, and play with the ponies. Sigh!