I took this picture in May 1978 when I was 12. Almost nothing in this picture is the same. This is my great uncle watching the road while sitting in the shade. All the sheds are now covered in metal and expanded. The brick tank used to be a reservoir. A pipe ran to it from the windmill. A pipe ran out from it to the barn. Automatically filled the troughs. Was done in the mid to late 1800s, very early running water system. The tank collapsed the following year. The stone path is replaced with....
(continued from previous post w/ picture) ... sidewalk and patio. The boards went to my great uncle's trailer. The man gave us his house to live in! We'd been in another town. Dad's business failed. Great uncle took us in.