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Posted by Wardner on February 17, 2007 at 19:30:49 from (4.154.244.242):
In Reply to: Re: O.T...Old Barns posted by The Dukester on February 17, 2007 at 18:40:23:
Yep, Fred was my grandfather. He died before I was born. My parents divorced when I was seven but we used to go to North Adams from Chicago several times a year. I mostly remember my grandma's cookies, my first paying job, and the cold bedrooms at Thanksgiving. I got $1.00 to mow her lawn. I remember the barn and the Kempton name (my grandma's maiden name) on the front. On one trip she had around fifty piglets in the barn yard. They were alot more fun than the animals at the Lincon Park Zoo. I was forbidden to enter the barn and couldn't really because the doors were always closed. Looking through the cracks, I recall seeing alot of loose hay. The barn burned several years later; maybe around 1955. Thanks for the memories.
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