{"id":4096,"date":"2025-07-29T19:35:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:40:53","slug":"eric-sloane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/eric-sloane\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Sloane, Chronicler of Barns and Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to plop down a few pages from Eric Sloane&#8217;s books to give some idea of what he was about. He wrote and illustrated books on rural buildings, woodworking, infrastructure such as bridges and roads, landscapes, and farm life in early colonial New England, as well as the weather and seasons. He even wrote a book just about bells. I&#8217;m not aware of anyone else like him regardless of era or region.<\/p>\n<p><em>Click to enlarge<\/em><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4096 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0104-tile-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0104-tile-web-500x336.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0104-tile-web-500x336.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0104-tile-web-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0104-tile-web-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0104-tile-web-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0104-tile-web.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0110-tile-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0110-tile-web-500x336.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0110-tile-web-500x336.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0110-tile-web-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0110-tile-web-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0110-tile-web-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-our-vanshing-landscape_0110-tile-web.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-Amer-Barns-0110-tile-horz-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-Amer-Barns-0110-tile-horz-web-500x347.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-Amer-Barns-0110-tile-horz-web-500x347.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-Amer-Barns-0110-tile-horz-web-1024x710.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-Amer-Barns-0110-tile-horz-web-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-Amer-Barns-0110-tile-horz-web-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-Amer-Barns-0110-tile-horz-web.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0067-tile-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0067-tile-web-500x365.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0067-tile-web-500x365.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0067-tile-web-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0067-tile-web-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0067-tile-web-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0067-tile-web.jpg 1130w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The pages are from the books <em>Our Vanishing Landscape, Seasons of America Past, American Barns and Covered Bridges, A Reverence for Wood, Folklore of American Weather, <\/em>and <em>A Celebration of Bells<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-4096 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-reverence-for-wood_0034-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"779\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-reverence-for-wood_0034-web-500x779.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-reverence-for-wood_0034-web-500x779.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-reverence-for-wood_0034-web-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-reverence-for-wood_0034-web.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-reverence-for-wood_0057-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"779\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-reverence-for-wood_0057-web-500x779.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-reverence-for-wood_0057-web-500x779.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-reverence-for-wood_0057-web-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-reverence-for-wood_0057-web.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america-tile_0141-horz-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america-tile_0141-horz-web-500x362.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america-tile_0141-horz-web-500x362.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america-tile_0141-horz-web-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america-tile_0141-horz-web-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america-tile_0141-horz-web-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america-tile_0141-horz-web.jpg 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0058-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0058-web-500x719.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0058-web-500x719.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0058-web-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0058-web.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0033-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0033-web-500x791.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0033-web-500x791.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0033-web-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0033-web.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0043-horz-tile-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0043-horz-tile-web-500x264.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0043-horz-tile-web-500x264.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0043-horz-tile-web-1024x541.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0043-horz-tile-web-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0043-horz-tile-web-768x406.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0043-horz-tile-web-1536x812.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-folklore-of-amer-weather_0043-horz-tile-web.jpg 1550w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0096-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0096-web-500x719.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0096-web-500x719.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0096-web-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-seasons-of-america_0096-web.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-celebration-of-bells-00-2a-frontis-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-celebration-of-bells-00-2a-frontis-web-500x691.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-celebration-of-bells-00-2a-frontis-web-500x691.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-celebration-of-bells-00-2a-frontis-web-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eric-Sloane-celebration-of-bells-00-2a-frontis-web.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to plop down a few pages from Eric Sloane&#8217;s books to give some idea of what he was about. He wrote and illustrated books on rural buildings, woodworking, infrastructure such as bridges and roads, landscapes, and farm life in early colonial New England, as well as the weather and seasons. He even wrote &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/eric-sloane\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eric Sloane, Chronicler of Barns and Clouds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-history","category-new-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}