Memoir Reading: Barn Gothic
Event Details
Date
December 4, 2025
Time
4pm
Location
Dormann Library
101 W Morris St
Bath, NY 14810
Host
CCE Steuben

Barn Gothic is an elegy for family farmers and an intimate portrait of three generations laboring to be fathers and sons while their livelihood falls apart. Beautifully told with a farmer's restraint and a poet's grace, it is a story of personal loss amid corporate corruption and of finding a way forward when everything you know disappears.
Ryan Dennis grew up on a dairy farm in Canaseraga, NY. Since 2011 he has written the column, The Milk House, which appears in print agricultural journals in four countries. His debut novel, The Beasts They Turned Away, was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. He is also the founder of the literary journal, The Milk House, which features writing on rural subjects from around the world. He currently lives in the West of Ireland.
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