Nelson Small Talk
Coming home early one day I met Bud French working on Log Cabin Road. His father, Win, was supervising. I rolled down my window and requested that the road be paved with a concrete median strip painted green. When I came home the next day I found a 4 x 8 sign on the road indicating that cheap but good coffee could be had at a rest stop ahead. There was a picture a steaming cup of coffee and directions to my house. Bud and Win denied any responsibility.
The following spring I took the kids to Bascoms in Acworth for sugar-on- snow. There I bought two sap pails and taps. Betsey painted a red maple leaf and the words,”Win’s Sugar Shack:”, on each. In the dark of night I used my portable drill to “tap” two telephone poles near the French’s farm and hung the buckets. As far as I know they never knew who did it, but the buckets hung for a long time. ~ Rick Church
