http://www.cousinagamfhein.net/archives/52 Stories someone told about somebody Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.cousinagamfhein.net/archives/52/comment-page-1#comment-23 Frank Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:31:12 +0000 http://www.cousinagamfhein.net/wordpress/2006/03/14/david-and-the-truckers/#comment-23 David, When we moved away from Inverness five years later my father sold the house he had built on Campbell Street where you and your mother stayed with us. It was a new home and the best he could get for it was $1800. That seems to have been the going rate for real estate in Inverness at the time. I live only three doors down from the house where you and your family lived when you were here. It's in sad shape but still occupied. The front porch is gone, though, and it is the porch that I remember visiting and playing when you and John and were there. The house has an odd roof now. About twenty years ago the man next door to that house hired the man across the street from him, who earned his living working in the woods, to cut down a large white poplar he felt threatened his house. (The white poplar is a terrbile nusance of a tree but we in Inverness have snobbishly upgraded it and call it a silver oak or a silver maple.) The woodsman cut the tree down but miscalculated and it fell through the roof of your old house causing a lot of damage. The family living there at the time, Beatons I believe, was eating breakfsat and the father Beaton came running out to see what had happened. That's when the whole street learned that one neighbour had hired another neighbour to cut down that belong to a third neighbour, the man who lived in your house. Another roof has been added to the flat roof that was pretty well flattened and crushed by the falling tree, and still sits on top on the original roof looking like a head wearing two hats. David,
When we moved away from Inverness five years later my father sold the house he had built on Campbell Street where you and your mother stayed with us. It was a new home and the best he could get for it was $1800. That seems to have been the going rate for real estate in Inverness at the time.
I live only three doors down from the house where you and your family lived when you were here. It’s in sad shape but still occupied. The front porch is gone, though, and it is the porch that I remember visiting and playing when you and John and were there.
The house has an odd roof now.
About twenty years ago the man next door to that house hired the man across the street from him, who earned his living working in the woods, to cut down a large white poplar he felt threatened his house. (The white poplar is a terrbile nusance of a tree but we in Inverness have snobbishly upgraded it and call it a silver oak or a silver maple.)
The woodsman cut the tree down but miscalculated and it fell through the roof of your old house causing a lot of damage. The family living there at the time, Beatons I believe, was eating breakfsat and the father Beaton came running out to see what had happened.
That’s when the whole street learned that one neighbour had hired another neighbour to cut down that belong to a third neighbour, the man who lived in your house.
Another roof has been added to the flat roof that was pretty well flattened and crushed by the falling tree, and still sits on top on the original roof looking like a head wearing two hats.

]]> http://www.cousinagamfhein.net/archives/52/comment-page-1#comment-22 Rose Abril Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:51:32 +0000 http://www.cousinagamfhein.net/wordpress/2006/03/14/david-and-the-truckers/#comment-22 I would like to buy a house for $1800. Six kids under the age of 7? It's amazing Grandma lived to tell about it. I would like to buy a house for $1800.
Six kids under the age of 7? It’s amazing Grandma lived to tell about it.

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