Time and the pace of life have perceptibly slowed down. In a time of uncertainty, we search for something comfortingly permanent and familiar. What can we find in our southeastern Pennsylvania ...

Former Times-Reporter staff writer Renee Brown Parker takes us on a personal journey of replacing the family’s nearly 100-year-old barn with a new one. Old bank barns are familiar sights around here.

The first time I heard the term bank barn was during a phone conversation with the chief of one of Berks County’s rural fire companies. He had returned a page to discuss a fire from the previous night ...