[Lowfer] Slightly Off-Topic: Pics

[Mike Staines]

For those who need to see such things, I obtained an overhead view of the
neighborhood and highlighted it with my property line, my LF antenna and
markers for the Inn, Barn and Garage.

Here is an unmarked picture:
www.ThePittsfieldInn.com/ham/Overhead.jpg

and here is the marked-up version:
www.ThePittsfieldInn.com/ham/Overhead2.jpg

As you would expect, the picture is fuzzy and the lights and shadows makes
it difficult for even me to figure out what is what. If it looks like the
garage is as big as the house it is because it almost is. The garage will
hold 7 cars easily.

The Inn was built in 1832 to support the Arkwright Cotton Mill that was
across the street. My building was combination Paymaster office and
quarters, Transient housing for salesmen, Company Store (dry goods, mostly)
and 1500 Sq ft. dance hall (still upstairs). The barn kept the working
horses for the Mill.

Next door to us is a wonderful hops farm that is being restored to it's
original condition (1830). Hops was the local agricultural product at that
time. Area farmers switched over to Dairy products about 1900 when the
Cotton Mill closed down and the Borden Family (from Pittsfield) built the
largest "Borden's Condensed Milk" factory in the world on the site of the
mill. It had a 250' Smoke Stack for the evaporated water.

Now the only claim we can stake is that ALL the Breyer's yogurt in the world
is made at a plant about 3 miles north of here.  8-)

73,
Mike