The uncle, Wes Strange
I learned to stretch wire from my “second father,” my Uncle Wes, who taught me a lot about tools and land. Wes was a 30-year-career Army Chief Warrant Officer. When he retired in 1965, he began building a new house in front of the old one in which he was born in 1919. At 11 years old, I was the second carpenter, electrician, and plumber on the project. That was the start…
