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Ruth Barton <[log in to unmask]>
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I really shouldn't read e-mail after 10PM, that's when I have my one and
only drink of the day, I read that last line as CONSTIPATION inspector.
Now that's one interesting occupation, say what?  Ruth



At 5:23 PM -0500 11/10/08, Larry Simpson wrote:
>-Just a little stonework on my own...At this point I should paste in my
>alleged bio:
>
>-I dropped out after trying to get through Engineering, then taking random
>courses in almost anything else. I lived for a while at Squalid Manor helping
>Ralph Ewers survey caves. Then I helped Jerry & Sandy Nichols restore a log
>house near Boone's Trace, then back to Squalid Manor, then back to
>Cincinnati to
>work as a hod carrier for a block layer then in the Emergency Room of a
>hospital
>(transporting specimens and blood). Around that time I met Iberus Hacker
>who had
>actually been a notorious community organizer in Chicago, and was brought to
>Cincy by the Urban Appalachian Council. He was also a folk-blues singer, and I
>played harmonica with him and a fiddle player named Mark John. He was
>trying to
>organize and start a folk school but died of a heart attach while at an
>anti-Klan rally in SC. After I got married I moved on up to a decontamination
>unit of Jewish Hospital where I had to scrub down and clean equipment.
>Then got a
>job with the Metropolitan Sewer District as a draftsman (Engineering ed
>finally
>paying off!). Finally, I worked my way up to construction inspector.....
>
>Larry
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Ruth Barton
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Dummerston, VT

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