D. H. Day’s iconic farm lies in an open meadow within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Day, known for developing the historic village of Glen Haven, named his farm Oswegatchie after the upper New York community where his father was born. Always working to strengthen and diversify Glen Haven, Day raised 400 hogs and 200 Holstein cattle, feeding them hay and corn grown on the property. Like many photographers, it’s one of my favorite subjects. When I took pictures of Oswegatchie last Thursday, I took the most common view in the first image. But I also worked to capture the 116-foot-long dairy barn from other angles, trying to show its other features too, like the poured-concrete silos, octagonal cupolas with bell roofs, and flared eves that permitted water drainage. I took the last image from the #3 overlook on the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive. It was morning and the fog nearly hid Pyramid Point and the Lake Michigan horizon in the background.
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