“Feel the Barn.” That sounds like a political slogan of 2016, but it may also describe the deep feeling of a young woman who is helping a historic barn find new purpose in rural Kansas.
Amanda Kaufman is events coordinator for the Collingwood Barn in Pretty Prairie, Kansas. A man named Mart Collingwood started building this barn in 1913. The current owners, Dan and Brenda Pace, are descendants of the Collingwood family who also started a grain company.
Amanda first saw this barn in 2011. She is a Colorado native who went to Oklahoma State University. While working at a rodeo Bible camp in Texas, she met a young Kansan named Blaine Kaufman from Pretty Prairie. Their relationship grew.
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