[The Barn Tribute website] brought back a lot of memories (I had forgotten about being awoken by that squirrel), and made Laura and I reminisce. I remember cooking for 6. Dinner conversations. Fred had a good word for that. Mowing the lawn with Fred's push-mower. Pippin climbing up and down the ladder. Bats flying around upstairs. Playing our basketball game. Jamie's surreal comments. Fred living in what seemed to me a semi-comatose state of never sleeping/always sleeping. The recycling system. Stacking wood. Crowding around the warm fire on cold nights. The piece of wood that gave our dish-drying system its slope. Our crowded pantry. Washing dishes. Our napkin rings. Our napkin basket. Throwing frisbees in the backyard. The trails through the woods. The fireflies. Looking at the stars from the windmill. The barn was a great place to live, and it was a great group of people. My life has been transformed since the day we rented a truck and moved into that crazy building, and the Barn was a not inconsequential backdrop to it all. I'll miss it.

As I think back about what life at the Barn was like, I never cease to be amazed at how it was such a different world than anyplace else. No other living experiences of mine even compare, nor have I ever heard from anyone else who could match our stories of Barn life with similar stories of their own. It was truly a one-of-a-kind experience. My most vivid memories are of all those close calls I had on the driveway, from the first time I spun around backwards on "Terror Hill", to the time I was inches from going over the embankment into the pond, to the time I got stuck in the Ice Swamp, to the time I slid right off The Glacier and into a ditch. But I'll never forget that night when all five of us pushed Mark's and Fred's cars through a foot of snow at 4am. I remember delicious dinners and esoteric conversations, network WarCraft, Fibonacci hacks, cleaning out the attic, building screen doors, Pippin and the Purple Ball, The Dunk Game, winterizing the house, getting roofing tar on my pants, burning stuff, throwing CDs, cutting down trees, fixing things up, extricating dead squirrels, cleaning the wood room, and so much more. Life at the Barn could've been miserable, if spent with the wrong people. But we had great fun, and the hard times only brought us closer together. I'll never forget the people I lived with or the times we had. And I'm sure my grandkids won't believe my stories about getting to school in the snow ....

    As BJ's parents we have fond memories of The Barn. Starting with BJ's excitement about finding The Barn, telling us all about it, to our first visit and that sad day when BJ said he was leaving The Barn.
    We were thrilled to be a part of BJ's excitement. He shared via e-mail, phone calls and his web page the ongoing events and happenings at the Barn. When we made our first visit we saw and shared his excitement. We discussed what could be done with this great structure if it were ours. We explored every inch of the Barn with great pleasure.
    Yes we have fond memories of "The Barn." The biggest one was being able to share all of BJ's excitement. Also meeting his housemates, listening to the stories and realizing how the Barn was such an important part of BJ's life and the lives of all who lived there.
    Goodbye "Barn", we will never forget the stories and great memories that went along with "THE BARN."

    One of the most significant things about the Barn that hasn't been mentioned above is the network we set up. It's amazing to me now to look back over the record of our network progress and see how little we had when we started -- we didn't know anything about routers, hubs, proxies, or any of the other fun things we learned about over the years. The experience in setting it all up taught me a lot, and I think it raised my expectations for any place I live at in the future.
    Despite the primitive networking, I think I'll always treasure the early years at the Barn the most, and all the Firsts: working out our Dinner Plan, getting PrimeStar, starting our network, coming up with the movie series, having our first barbecue (and even our first leaks, squirrels, and flooded basement).