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Filmmakers present award-winning “The Barn Raisers” at Marengo Public Library August 5th

Kelly Rundle films in the barn at Zingerman's Cornman Farms in Dexter, Michigan with architect Charles Bultman and executive chef Kieron Hales talking in the background.

On Sunday, August 5th The Barn Raisers will screen at the Marengo Public Library, 235 E. Hilton Street, Marengo, Iowa at 1:00 p.m.  The new documentary by Mid-America Emmy® nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films has been a crowd-pleaser at numerous film festivals across the country.  The filmmakers will take part in Q&A following the screening. The event is free to the public and seating is limited. The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Marengo Public Library Foundation.

“The Barn Raisers feels like a hymn to the solemn beauty and importance of these buildings,” wrote Entertainment Editor Jonathan Turner
of the Dispatch-Argus.

Film critic Linda Cook, Quad City Times, gave The Barn Raisers four-out-of-four stars.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright built Midway Barn at Taliesin in Wyoming, Wisconsin.

The Barn Raisers tells the story of barns in the Midwest 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.  Barns were constructed by farmer-craftsmen, professional builders like Wisconsin round barn builder Alga Shivers who traveled from job to job, and even architects like Frank Lloyd Wright. The Barn Raisers paints a cinematic portrait of barns and builders, an important way of life that has been largely forgotten, and the film reminds us that these remnants from America’s rural past are still here to be interpreted and experienced.

“How could we create something from practically nothing with just a handful of tools and no drawings? The answer is in the barns,” said Rudy Christian, a traditional timber framer and barn preservationist from Burbank, Ohio.

Traditional timber framer Rudy Christian in The Barn Builders.

The Barn Raisers was an Official Selection at the Newport Beach Film Festival, the Beloit International Film Festival, the Interrobang Film Festival, the Royal Starr Film Festival, the Sunback Film Festival, and an award-winner at the Iowa Independent Film Festival and the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival.

The Barn Raisers was partially funded by grants from Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, Wisconsin Humanities Council, Humanities Iowa, the Kansas Humanities Council, the Ohio Humanities Council, the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, the National Barn Alliance/Russ & LuAnn Mawby, the Moline Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Jackson County. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this documentary film and program do not necessarily reflect those of the organizations.

Tammy Rundle interviews Dennis Good at the Good Farm in Ogden, Iowa, home of World's Champion Belgian stallion Farceur.

The Rundles are the producers of twelve award-winning documentaries including the Lost Nation: The Ioway 1, 2 & 3 series, and the Emmy® nominated Country School: One Room - One Nation, River to River: Iowa’s Forgotten Highway 6, and Letters Home to Hero Street (co-produced with WQPT-PBS).

Historic Sleeping Bear Showcases "The Barn Raisers" as Part of 20 Year Anniversary Celebration

To celebrate their 20th anniversary, Historic Sleeping Bear in Empire, Michigan will host the event, “Celebrate Historic Sleeping Bear!” on June 29-30th. 

The celebration will kick off with a special FREE showing of the award-winning The Barn Raisers documentary in the Olsen Barn on Friday, June 29th at 7:00 p.m.  

The Barn Raisers, a documentary by Mid-America Emmy® nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films tells the story of barns in the Midwest 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 was shot in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas and is a companion film to the Rundles’ Emmy® nominated historical documentary Country School: One Room – One Nation.

Saturday, June 30th will be an  all-day event from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. featuring family activities and tours, ending with a fun-filled barn dance.

For details call 231-334-6103 or visit Phsb.org.

KMA Features Heritage Days and "The Barn Raisers" Celebration

KMA Radio in Shenandoah, Iowa called bright and early to interview The Barn Raisers director Kelly Rundle about the upcoming benefit screening of the new award-winning documentary at the annual Villisca Heritage Day celebration on July 1.

Two pairs of tickets were also given away to KMA listeners.

The Barn Raisers will screen Sunday, July 1 at 2:00PM at the Villisca Wellness Center, 219 Central Avenue, Villisca, Iowa and benefit the Villisca Historical Society. The filmmakers will take part in Q&A following the film. Tickets are $8. Children 12 and under are free. Villisca Heritage Day will feature other festivities on Sunday, including a Community Worship in the park, Library Open House, Tours of the Armory, food, entertainment, music and the popular 4th of July fireworks display in the evening.

Villisca Heritage Day Fireworks, Festivities and Special Benefit Screening of “The Barn Raisers” Featured July 1

Flynn Barn at Living History Farms in Urbandale, Iowa.

The Barn Raisers, a documentary by Mid-America Emmy® nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films (Villisca: Living with a Mystery) will be showcased at Villisca Heritage Day, Sunday, July 1 at 2:00 p.m.. The award-winning film will screen at the Villisca Wellness Center, 219 Central Avenue, Villisca, Iowa and benefit the Villisca Historical Society. The filmmakers will take part in Q&A following the film. Tickets are $8. Children 12 and under are free. Villisca Heritage Day will feature other festivities on Sunday, including their popular 4th of July fireworks display in the evening.

A crowd-pleaser at film festivals, The Barn Raisers tells the story of barns in the Midwest 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.
“How could we create something from practically nothing with just a handful of tools and no drawings? The answer is in the barns,” said Rudy Christian, a traditional timber framer and barn preservationist from Burbank, Ohio.

Barns were constructed by farmer-craftsmen, professional builders like Wisconsin round barn builder Alga Shivers who traveled from job to job, and even architects like Frank Lloyd Wright. The Barn Raisers paints a cinematic portrait of barns and builders, an important way of life that has been largely forgotten, and the film reminds us that these remnants from America’s rural past are still here to be interpreted and experienced.

“The Barn Raisers feels like a hymn to the solemn beauty and importance of these buildings,” wrote Entertainment Editor Jonathan Turner of the Dispatch-Argus.

Film critic Linda Cook, Quad City Times, gave The Barn Raisers four-out-of-four stars.

Numerous Iowa barns are featured in the documentary, including the iconic Tyden No. 6 barn located in Dougherty; 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; the Flynn barn at Living History Farms; architect/builder Benton Steele’s last remaining round barn in Iowa, and many others.

The film won a bronze Telly Award.

In addition to Iowa, The Barn Raisers was filmed in Kansas, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. The film recently received a bronze Telly Award for Excellence in Television and Video.

“These barns are a part of the history of American immigration,” said artist Jeremy Marlow who owns the Marlow-Saak Barn located in Waukon, Iowa. The barn is featured on the film’s poster. “It’s really sad to see these things fall down at an alarming rate.” It is estimated that Iowa loses over 1,000 vintage barns annually.

Funds raised during the benefit screening will help the Villisca Historical Society in its efforts to preserve Villisca history and present informative programs and presentations to the public.

The Barn Raisers was an Official Selection at eight film festivals nationwide including the Newport Beach Film Festival, the Beloit International Film Festival, the Interrobang Film Festival, the Royal Starr Film Festival, the Sunback Film Festival, and it was an award-winner at the Iowa Independent Film Festival and the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival.

The Barn Raisers was partially funded by grants from Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, Humanities Iowa, the Kansas Humanities Council, Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Ohio Humanities Council, the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, the National Barn Alliance/Russ & LuAnn Mawby, the Moline Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Jackson County. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this documentary film and program do not necessarily reflect those of the organizations.

The Villisca Historical Society, Inc. (VHSI) collects, preserves, and interprets historical materials, images and artifacts to shed light on the natural, civil and political history of the City of Villisca, Iowa. VHSI develops programs and provides information--via its membership quarterly newsletter, website VilliscaHistory.org, blog, and other social media--to promote public awareness, scholarly research, and appreciation of Villisca’s unique history. VHSI fosters excellence and leadership, historical inquiry, believing that an understanding of the past illuminates the present and gives vision to the future.

The Rundles are the producers of twelve award-winning documentaries including the Villisca: Living with a Mystery (about the 1912 Villisca axe murders), Lost Nation: The Ioway 1, 2 & 3 series, and the Emmy® nominated River to River: Iowa’s Forgotten Highway 6, and Letters Home to Hero Street (co-produced with WQPT-PBS).

"The Barn Raisers" returns to Door County for special Yesteryear Program event June 2

The Door County Historical Society will host its first Heritage Village at Big Creek yesteryear program of the season, a documentary “The Barn Raisers” on Saturday June 2. The award-winning film by Fourth Wall Films will screen at Collins Learning Center, 2041 Michigan St., Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.

"The Barn Raisers" is a historical feature film; the documentary tells the story of barns in the Midwest by examining them through the lens of architecture. What do barn settings, styles, methods and materials tell us about the people who built them, the life they lived, and the role these vanishing country cathedrals played in the settling and building of a growing nation? Barns were constructed by farmer-craftsmen, professional builders who traveled from job to job and even architects like Frank Lloyd Wright. A number of Wisconsin barns are featured in the film, including Frank Lloyd Wright’s Midway Barn at Taliesin in Spring Green, the 1897 Dairy Barn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Old World Wisconsin barns, and the story of notable African-American barn builder Alga Shivers who designed and constructed many of Vernon County's round barns in the early 20th century.

“How could we create something from practically nothing with just a handful of tools and no drawings? The answer is in the barns,” said Rudy Christian, a traditional timber framer and barn preservationist from Burbank, Ohio. “The Barn Raisers” paints a cinematic portrait of barns and builders, an important way of life that has been largely forgotten, and the film reminds us that these remnants from America’s rural past are still here to be interpreted and experienced.

Wisconsin's own historian and award-winning writerJerry Apps is interviewed for THE BARN RAISERS. Jerry is the author of numerous books, including "The Barns of Wisconsin", "One Room Country Schools: History and Recollections", "In a Pickle: A Family Farm Story". Visit Amazon.com for to own his wonderful work!

“The Barn Raisers” producer Tammy Rundle and her husband Director Kelly Rundle are Emmy-nominated historical documentary filmmakers. The Rundle team is passionate about telling forgotten but important Midwestern stories. When they realized that many barns disappearing across the rural landscapes, they determined to capture the story of our nation’s vanishing country cathedrals.

In 2018, the Door County Historical Society is celebrating the year of the barn. The day-long history tour will feature northern Door historic barns on Saturday, July 21, and details will be forthcoming early next month.



The member fee for the June 2nd feature “The Barn Raisers” is $5 and the guest fee is $10. To make a reservation for the 1:00 pm showing, mail your check to the Door County Historical Society Office, P. O. Box 71, Sturgeon Bay 54235. The Collins Learning Center doors will open at 12:30; a limited number of tickets will be available depending on advance reservations. If you are unable to attend, copies of “The Barn Raisers” are available for sale from the Door County Historical Society; the cost is $20. For further information, contact the Door County Historical Society at (920) 421-2332 or email [email protected] 

Founded in 1926, the Door County Historical Society keeps history alive for future generations through the collection, preservation and sharing of the heritage of Door County. The Society is a membership organization that operates two interpretive sites: Eagle Bluff Lighthouse in Peninsula State Park and the Heritage Village at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay.

Scott County Library System--Eldridge Branch Screens "The Barn Raisers" June 18

Ackley Heritage Center in Ackley, Iowa.

The Barn Raisers will screen on Monday, June 18 at 6:00 p.m. at the Scott County Library System-Eldridge Branch, 200 N. 6^th Avenue, Eldridge, Iowa. The event is free to the public. The Emmy® nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films will take part in Q&A following the screening.

 

The Barn Raisers is a companion film to the Rundles’ Emmy® nominated historical documentary Country School: One Room – One Nation.  The film has been an Official Selection at eight film festivals throughout the country and an award-winner.

 

The film tells the story of barns in the Midwest 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 was partially funded by grants from Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, Wisconsin Humanities Council, Humanities Iowa, the Kansas Humanities Council, the Ohio Humanities Council, the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, the National Barn Alliance/Russ & LuAnn Mawby, the Moline Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Jackson County.  Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this documentary film and program do not necessarily reflect those of the organizations.

 

The Rundles are the producers of twelve award-winning documentaries including the Lost Nation: The Ioway 1, 2 & 3 series, and the Emmy® nominated River to River: Iowa’s Forgotten Highway 6, and Letters Home to Hero Street (co-produced with WQPT-PBS).

Silos & Smokestacks' Encore Barn Bus Tour & "The Barn Raisers" June 2

Join Silos & Smokestacks for a bus tour through Northeast Iowa.  Visit three historic barns,  and along the way enjoy the award-winning documentary, The Barn Raisers, with live commentary from producers Tammy and Kelly Rundle.

Participants will eat a pancake breakfast at Hardin County Farm Museum  in Eldora, Iowa, tour the Harriman-Nielsen Historic Farm in Hampton, and receive a barn tour and lunch at Tyden Farm No. 6 in Dougherty.  All farms and barns featured on the tour are designated Silos & Smokestacks Partner Sites.

The Barn Raisers, is an award-winning documentary film that examines the iconic architecture of barns. The film sets the stage for a larger conversation about farm life and rural culture in the Midwest.  Kelly and Tammy Rundle from Fourth Wall Films, producers of the documentary, will join the bus tour to give live commentary about the documentary, the sites visited and look into the history, culture and creativity of the historic barns that dot Iowa’s countryside.

Cost is $20 person (call for group rates) and includes breakfast, lunch, snacks and an official Silos & Smokestacks bus tour bag.  The bus will leave downtown Waterloo at 8 a.m. on Saturday, June 2. Register at silosandsmokestacks.org/bustour. Call (319) 234-4567.

The project is supported, in part, by the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.

Through a network of sites, programs and events, Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area tells the story of farm life and agribusiness—past and present. Visitors can learn about and experience agriculture at a variety of museums, historic sites, and farms. One of 49 federally designated heritage areas in the nation, Silos & Smokestacks is an Affiliated Area of the National Park Service. The heritage area covers 37 counties in the northeast quadrant of Iowa.

The Barn Raisers was partially funded by grants from Humanities Iowa, Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, the Kansas Humanities Council, the Ohio Humanities Council, the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, the National Barn Alliance/Russ & LuAnn Mawby, the Moline Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Jackson County.  Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this documentary film and program do not necessarily reflect those of these organizations.

Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films are the producers of The Barn Raisers, and the regional Emmy® nominated historical documentaries Country School: One Room – One Nation, River to River: Iowa’s Forgotten Highway 6, and Letters Home to Hero Street (co-produced with WQPT-PBS), and the award-winning Movie Star: The Secret Lives of Jean Seberg (co-produced with Garry McGee), Lost Nation: The Ioway series, and Villisca: Living with a Mystery.

To order the award-winning The Barn Raisers DVD visit http://www.fourthwallfilms.com/dvds.htm.

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May 5th "The Barn Raisers" Screens in Kansas and Iowa

Sanford Museum will screen "The Barn Raisers" May 5

The Sanford Museum and Planetarium will showcase The Barn Raisers, the award-winning documentary by Mid-America Emmy® nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films.  The event is free to the public and the film will screen on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 4:00 p.m.

“The Barn Raisers feels like a hymn to the solemn beauty and importance of these buildings,” wrote Entertainment Editor Jonathan Turner of the Dispatch-Argus.
 
Film critic Linda Cook, Quad City Times, gave The Barn Raisers four-out-of-four stars.

The Barn Raisers tells the story of barns in the Midwest 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.  Barns were constructed by farmer-craftsmen, professional builders like Wisconsin round barn builder Alga Shivers who traveled from job to job, and even architects like Frank Lloyd Wright.  The Barn Raisers paints a cinematic portrait of barns and builders, an important way of life that has been largely forgotten, and the film reminds us that these remnants from America’s rural past are still here to be interpreted and experienced.

The Sanford Museum and Planetarium features exhibits and activities on a variety of subjects including: Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, Geology, History, Natural History, and Paleontology.  Admission is always free to the public.  The Sanford Museum is located at at 117 E Willow St, Cherokee, Iowa.

The Barn Raisers was partially funded by grants from the Humanities Iowa, Humanities Kansas, Wisconsin Humanities Council, Ohio Humanities Council, the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, the National Barn Alliance/Russ & LuAnn Mawby, Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, the Moline Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Jackson County.

All of the Rundles' award-winning films are available at Amazon.com and http://www.fourthwallfilms.com/dvds.htm.

Filmmakers showcase "The Barn Raisers" at Villisca Heritage Days July 1, 2018

Filmmakers Tammy & Kelly Rundle (Villisca: Living with a Mystery) will present "The Barn Raisers" at Villisca Heritage Days in Villisca, Iowa on Sunday, July 1, 2018.

Emmy® nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films will return to the site of their first film project and showcase their award-winning documentary The Barn Raisers in Villisca, Iowa for the town's annual Heritage Days on Sunday, July 1, 2018 and their 4th of July celebration.  The special fundraising screening will take place at 2:00 p.m. at the Villisca Wellness Center, 219 Central Avenue. Q&A with the Rundles will follow the film.  Tickets are $8/pp and will benefit the Villisca Historical Society, Inc.  Children 12 and under will be admitted free.  More details about the event and the Villisca Heritage Days schedule, festivities and fireworks will be posted soon.

A crowd-pleaser at film festivals, The Barn Raisers tells the story of barns in the Midwest 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.

Barns were constructed by farmer-craftsmen, professional builders like Wisconsin round barn builder Alga Shivers who traveled from job to job, and even architects like Frank Lloyd Wright.  The Barn Raisers paints a cinematic portrait of barns and builders, an important way of life that has been largely forgotten, and the film reminds us that these remnants from America’s rural past are still here to be interpreted and experienced.

The Rundles are the producers of the award-winning Villisca: Living with a Mystery and the Emmy® nominated documentaries: River to River: Iowa's Forgotten Highway 6, Letters Home to Hero Street (with WQPT-PBS), and Country School: One Room - One Nation.


The critically-acclaimed and award winning "Villisca: Living with a Mystery" tells the epic true story of the 1912 Children's Day axe murders and the chaos and division that followed in the town of Villisca, Iowa. It was the Rundles' first documentary film project, and went on to qualify for the 2005 Academy Award competition in the documentary category.

The Barn Raisers was partially funded by grants from the Humanities Iowa, Humanities Kansas, Wisconsin Humanities Council, Ohio Humanities Council, the Michigan Barn Preservation Network, the National Barn Alliance/Russ & LuAnn Mawby, Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, the Moline Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Jackson County.

All of the Rundles' award-winning films are available at Amazon.com and http://www.fourthwallfilms.com/dvds.htm.

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