Sunday, November 2, 2008
The Farm
Thought I'd tell you a little about our farm, the Webster farm. It's located on Webster Rd., Coventry (Orleans County), VT. It's been in the family for nearly 100 years. My dad will talk about that on the videos. It's about 300 acres. My great grandparents, grandparents and dad milked cows there. My dad still hays the land every summer - in his late 80's at that! He raised eight of his nine children on the farm (I had a brother who passed away at seven months old). He and his wife of almost 20 years, Vivian, still live in the farmhouse where my dad was born. Many years ago, Dad starting tearing down old barns. People just gave them to him. We kids would help, at times. My brother Daniel mostly worked with him. Then, he would use that lumber to build housing for his "stuff". He now had a few buildings on about four acres. One is an old school house he moved in sections. Can you believe it. Another came from down the road - part of the original farm house. One is the "glass house" - a two story structure, the bottom which he uses as his workshop and the top of which is all-around glass windows. Two buildings are HUGE, two-story structures. He does the best he can to keep them "up". He has everything one could imagine. I've been home visiting when someone has come buy to check an "oddity" out. Lots of times because they've bought something similar and now need to know how it works! I'll try to add more pictures as time goes on so you can get a real good look at things. I promise you'll never see anything like it - ever. Everything is out in the open and people are free to feel, try, take pictures, ride in, ect.
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