{"id":417,"date":"2014-03-17T17:51:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T00:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=417"},"modified":"2014-03-18T15:07:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T22:07:32","slug":"end-of-an-era-for-surfwood-barn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"End of an Era for Surfwood Barn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_418\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/milligan-barn.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-418\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-418\" title=\"milligan barn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/milligan-barn-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/milligan-barn-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/milligan-barn-1024x761.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Milligan: &#8220;Ocean View Dairy Barn&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our local landmark is being demolished. We\u2019ve known it as the Surfwood Barn for the fourteen years we\u2019ve lived here in the Mendocino Coast. It was originally part of the Joy Ranch, and then the Ocean View Dairy, which supplied milk to Mendocino from 1914 to 1939. Since then it has quietly decayed, and has been a favorite subject of plein air painters for decades. This 2001 painting by artist<a title=\"Kevin Milligan Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinmilligangallery.com\/\"> Kevin Milligan<\/a><a title=\"Kevin Milligan Gallery\" href=\"kevinmilligangallery.com\/?\">\u00a0 <\/a>is from his book <em>Mendocino: A Painted Pictorial<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0The barn now sits on one of the parcels of the Surfwood IV development. We pass it daily on our walks around the neighborhood. We knew that the building, which has been held together for years by aircraft cable, was in a dangerous state, and the current owners of the property had received a demolition permit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_420\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-demolition1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-420\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-420\" title=\"barn demolition\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-demolition1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Demolishing the barn\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-demolition1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-demolition1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demolition in progress<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But the arrival of heavy equipment still came as a shock and a sadness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our local landmark is being demolished. We\u2019ve known it as the Surfwood Barn for the fourteen years we\u2019ve lived here in the Mendocino Coast. It was originally part of the Joy Ranch, and then the Ocean View Dairy, which supplied milk to Mendocino from 1914 to 1939. Since then it has quietly decayed, and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,59,153],"tags":[190,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}