The Millersville Area Historical Society will host a presentation, titled "The Old Historic Barns of Lancaster County and Other Areas of Southeastern Pennsylvania," when it meets at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9, in the Millersville Borough Administration and Police Building, 100 Municipal Drive. The doors will open at 8:30 a.m. and lock at 9:15 a.m.

The speaker will be Greg Huber, an architectural house and barn historian and a student of forests, trees and wood - major components of historic vernacular buildings. His slideshow presentation will cover some early scenes of the Pennsylvania German culture for context and then transition to a discussion of the major barn types. The major focus of the talk will be on people's extensive departure from the cultural ways of the last half of the 18th century and all of the 19th century - a time when people's foremost involvement was with nature. A question-and-answer session will close the meeting.

Huber is a consultant and principal owner of Past Perspectives and Eastern Barn Consultants, both historic and cultural resource companies based in Macungie. Since 1974 he has specialized in pre-Civil War-era house and barn architecture of Holland Dutch and Pennsylvania Swiss-German areas. He has documented more than 8,000 vernacular buildings, including more than 5,000 homestead barns. He is also the author of more than 340 articles on barn and house architecture, and he published a barn research journal. He wrote a 240-page book, "The Historic Barns of Southeast Pennsylvania: Architecture & Preservation, Built 1750-1900."

Admission is free, and donations will be accepted. For more details, contact Phil Gerber at 717-872-8837 before noon or at pge8507@aol.com.