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The following comments and photo I received from Bob Bennett recently regarding the barn and farm house I posted about recently...George Dutka
"The farm buildings you photographed are about a
mile and a half from my house here in South China; you must have shot
them just before or after you visited my layout (one of 147 by the way). I
am a member of the South China Library Board and we purchased all of
that property about five years ago. A new library building is, very,
slowly being completed on the site.
The house in the photo has no heat
and is presently being used mostly for storage. It is a very typical New
England layout and has a lot of its original furnishings and details.
The barn is in pretty good condition although there are some "openings"
other than the doors and windows. It is still full of stuff from previous
renters and owners and we're trying to clean it out. The house, built
in the 1820's, was the birthplace of a pretty well-known Quaker
activist, Rufus Jones. Friends, as they were also known, were quite
numerous in this part of Maine and Jones is a common name for their
families. Rufus even tried to take on Hitler in the 1930's."...Bob Bennett.
