Old farmers pass the family farm down to sons - that’s just the way it works.  Through six generations the way held on the Obert farm.  It ended with Charlie.  After inheriting the place Charlie’s son Milo did the unthinkable.  He sold it and moved away.  

Milo’s sisters, Margaret and Janet, stayed behind and raised families of their own.  Each lived just down the road from the farm enduring, in an old red barn, a rotting reminder of what had been.  Through the years they learned simply to turn away as they passed. 

The women made no plans to attend the day the barn was to be bulldozed and torched.

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Charlie Obert’s Barn is a story of reclamation.  A building gets reused, some feelings are patched up, and voices long silenced whisper. 

It’s about family.  It’s about work.  It’s about life.