Ruth -

That's what you get for REALLY living in the sticks.  Even Phelps and the
surrounding environs have online :-).

- Pam
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From: "Ruth Barton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 23:00
Subject: [BP] Cast Iron


> OK gang.  I thought you all were pulling my leg with that talk of cast
iron
> buildings, I mean really, cast iron is for boilers and engine blocks and
> such, not for buildings but.....
>
> About ten days ago there was quite a conflagration in downtown
Brattleboro,
> this is the local "shopping town," population around 8,000 I should think.
> Now to those of you who live in big cities this is probably not news but
> here there is one fire of this magnitude about every ten to twelve years.
> The newspapers have been full of stories about the fire, the building and
> it's history, etc.  I think it said the building was built around 1901 or
> so and it has 3 cast iron columns on the front.  Now I have been in and
out
> of this building dozens of times and I certainly never noticed that the
> columns on the front were cast iron.  Was it made to look like stone like
> the metal grave monuments were?  Ruth
>
> PS:  I thought the paper would have the article online and I could give
you
> a URL but they seemed to have everything but online.
> --
> Ruth Barton
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> Dummerston, VT
>
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