When your family farm has to tear down a barn, everyone tries to get a piece of the legacy, and to share stories of the memories.

That is indeed the case for the Knibbs family of the Stoughton area, whose barn came down on October 16th.

Laura Knibbs said there were years of fun had by her five children and their cousins, and then by all their children.

"Once we no longer used the small square bales, Richard turned the loft into a floor hockey rink, and kids of all ages played kids there," she shared. "It was wonderful fun, for probably 15 years, I guess, there was floor hockey in the loft."

She said the roof of the barn was a particularly enticing place to be.

"There was a there was a bin that sat next to the barn that was fairly close, and it was used as a bin for a number of years, and then it was where the kids had their rabbits. And then it just turned into a self feeder for the cows. But anyway, the kids, and the grandkids, even, they would climb up there, it was easy to climb that smaller building and then they would get over onto the roof, and that's where they would sit to watch the sunset at night. And well, even this last summer we had grandkids on the roof, watching the sunset."

Laura said there were also "all kinds of stories of misbehaviors", too, on that roof.

"There's a story of the football being up on the roof. One day I looked out and saw one of my sons diving to catch a football from over the edge," she told. "He did not fall, but that was the end of that football game."

A sentimental encapsulationi of the old barn posted on Facebook by Ian Knibbs.

Laura shared some of what may come of the salvaged remains of the old barn.

"My one daughter had took quite a bit of wood and she won't tell anybody what she's doing. It's a secret," she chuckled. "My son was hoping to get enough to build a boardroom table for his office, but that didn't happen. He is now working on something creative for their living room. The windows were all claimed. People are going to use those for picture frames or whatever. And there was talk of a headboard. There was all different kinds of ideas. Signage."

Knibbs added she and Richard purchased the farm from the family of the original homesteader Tom Fields, who built the barn in 1910.

"His son Willie is still alive. He's 100 years old, and he he was the next owner, and then we purchased the place from Willy, but it was Willy's dad that built the barn."

If you would like to share this story with someone who'd enjoy hearing Laura explain it, listen here:

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