August 2013 I Today in Mississippi I 7
Barn stood are the silos. But Rolling Fork has the barn back once again— well, they have a scale model of it. Ben Lamensdorf commissioned Billy Jones of Jackson, a member of the Craftsman’s Guild of Mississippi who builds replicas of old houses and such, to make a model of the Red Barn. They unveiled it last month in the courthouse at Rolling Fork. There it will remain on display in a glass case, except when court is in session. Then they will roll it out of the way. Mr. Lamensdorf said he wanted to have a replica of the Red Barn made for all of the people who had some kind of attachment to it. That seems to be pretty much everybody in the county in some way or another, whether they played in it as a kid, used it as a rudimentary GPS
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for giving directions or just passed it coming back into town, knowing as they saw it they were home again. Now, the Red Barn is home again.
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