OK, here's the story...My grandfather recently died. We flew up to connecticut as soon as we could. After the wake, we were taking my great aunt back home, and we got to talking about what I collect. She asked me what I collect, and I told her I collect insulators. She told me she had a few, and to come in and take them. On her table was a CD 154 WT in purple, CD 167 Armstrong in rootbeer amber, a CD 147 pat. oct. 8th and a CD 152 Hemi 40 with a dot over the N in Hemingray. The next day, she said I should go down in the basement to see if I could find any more. Now let me say now, my great uncle ran the dump, and he was an avid collector of EVERYTHING. Their basement, attic, two semi trailers, and house in general at one time was packed to the brim with stuff. Most of it has been cleaned out after he died, but a LOT is still there. I went into the basement, and was able to find five insulators on a shelf behind some junk. Then, I looked on the bottom of a shelf and found a huge crate filled with insulators. I took almost all of them, just leaving a bunch of Hemingray 19's. She also gave me a huge chunck of glass from the New Canaan Bottle Works in connecticut made many years ago. So, the next ay, I was up in the woods, and found piles of rotting crossarms and pins. Now I know where all the insulators came from! I decided to go into a little barn up on the hill. I was scared at first, because it was old and down-right spoky, but them I saw more insulators. I took a few from a basket, just leaving CD 154 and CD 122 WT's. I started to look around, and found a porcelain insulator on a bracket, then a small spool. Looking around more at the general layout of the shed, I realized something...The whole barn was made using insulator crossarms! Most of the crossarms still had pins, some even with insulator on them! So anyways, I lugged about 70 lbs of glass back home on the plane in two carry on bags! I got them all home safely, and here they are, waiting to be unpacked! |