Watsontown Grange looks at historic barns
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Tom Grbenick will share a presentation on barn preservation at 6:30 p.m., Nov. 16 at the California Grange, 17 California Road, Watsontown.
Grbenick, a news release said, serves on the board of directors of the Historic Barn and Farm Foundation of Pennsylvania and lives on historic land known as New Garden in the area named Paradise, Lewis Township, Northumberland County.
Grbenick will be showing a video produced by the Foundation marking 250 years of barn building in Pennsylvania, together with a photo sampling of local and regional barns and will invite the audience to share information and personal memories in talkback discussion about historic barns and farms in upper Montour and Northumberland counties.
Grbenick is a retired landscape architect with a longstanding interest in historic barns. According to the news release, he was the founder and longtime Director of the SEDA-COG Community Resource Center in Lewisburg where he and his staff of landscape architects, environmental and town planners, provided planning, design and development services for regional communities, downtowns and neighborhoods, parks and greenways throughout Central Pennsylvania.
"Tom will also provide information about membership in the Historic Barn and Farm Foundation of Pennsylvania, its mission and grant program for historic barn restoration, and its highly regarded historic barn tours open to members of the organization," the news release said.