And we bought a – my wife and I bought a cottage in ’54, I think it was, up on the lake and back in the 70s the storms washed us out and practically destroyed the cottage, so we decided to rebuild it. So, we built a new one and put it up above the flood plain and we enjoyed that very much. That’s where we spent a lot of time I later years. I still spend some time up there.

But, things have evolved in our lifetime. We’ve seen…Well, the telephone actually evolved. We had the old crank telephones but not everybody had ‘em and its evolved; telephones in the industry, that – cell phones and all this stuff. We didn’t have any radios; no television, we hadn’t heard of that yet.

I remember listening to radio. We had a little console model set on the table. Amos and Andy, and Gene and Glenn…Some of those old ones! (Laughs). Yeah, that was a big thing in our early life. I think it was probably late 20s before we got the first radio.

Electricity? Well, we had it. I was raised here in town inside the town, but it was…the late 30s or maybe early 40s before the people in the country got electricity.

The Rural Electrification Association started out, it was…started government programs, lot of it, cause that was part of my early business was kerosene and white gasoline for those, what they called those Aladdin lamps, that burnt gasoline? They gave off a real white light, but they were also kind of dangerous. Could start a big fire.

Yeah, people still burned a lot of wood and coal. That was another thing I liked to do was work in the woods. I had several opportunities to work and haul logs to the mill.

Oh yeah, there were several of them. There are still a couple sawmills around in the country here. But, one of the first ones I remember was run with a steam engine. Later on they converted it to a gas engine, of course.

But that took the fun out of it; that old steam engine was fun. A lot of work too, but it was fun for me!