a young guy who works for me is from
> Nelson, BC

I was teaching Heritage Interpretation at Selkirk College in Nelson.
Pretty place.   Also had a young man working for me at the Mill some years
ago who was becoming a timber framer and then went to Nelson to start his
own business.  He was a natural with wood.  Is your guy Sean McTaigue?  You
are fortunate if it is.

> > > Driscoll Brothers, a large operation in a brick building that may've
> > fronted
> > > on State Street.

Driscoll Bro. had Ithaca's big hardware store on State Street.  Next to the
ELKS building where the Tuning Fork knocked down things and made a parking
lot on the North side of the street (but actually I think it was on the west
side of BPOE if there is a parking lot there now), there was a tall brick
building that was Driscoll's Hardware store.   Traditional old hardware
store on the first floor with wood stove in the middle and a magical
stairway at the back that led upstairs to where they had the town's best
collection of bicycles and carts.   I remember always enjoying looking up
from the street at the Red Flyer wagon they kept in the second floor window
to tease youthful fancy.

cp in bc

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