But he didn't get to build the house until he retired in 1985 from Coats and Clark Thread Mill after 43 years of service.
I spent all my life coming up here with him. We actually chopped down the trees and sawed the lumber and had it cleaned and built the house.
It's a funny story because we all grew up driving that truck. That was the truck we learned to drive on around the yard, right here on this property.
That was what he did, he worked. He didn't go fishing or hunting, he worked.
