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barn raising

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barn raising
n.
A social event in which members of a community assist in the building of a new barn.


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That semi-mythic era of the happy, contented rural village--its landowning swains and lasses farming and blacksmithing and barn raising, quilting and square dancing and parenting, worshiping and burying and remembering, oblivious to the greed, passions, and nation-state criminality washing over the rest of the planet--has, on the whole, receded far beyond recovery.
Paradise lost: a populist's nostalgic ode to an America gone by by McClaughry, John / Reason
Once on site, the prefabricated columns were erected in a day, recalling a traditional barn raising when rural communities pitched in to build simple rustic structures.
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This is a BioBlitz, the biodiversity version of a barn raising.
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