No , Michael Boundy, but I still count myself fortunate. He shot himself
with the finish nailer Monday, Through the fingertip and out through the
fingernail, but generally good learner, hard worker and philosopher. ctb
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From: "Cuyler Page" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: Ithaca Lumber Yards


> 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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