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Remember Dynasty, the saga of the badly-behaving Carrington and Colby clans of Texas? Well, there’s another dynasty flourishing right next door, deep in the heart of Oklahoma. The (much nicer)
This is not going to be one of those perky accounts of how a lumberyard in a tiny town is doing enviable business despite a puny population base because (choose
Those readers blessed with total recall may remember this column’s story in the March 2017 issue about a yard called Siwek Lumber. The lumberyard has been in business since 1933,
You visited our website yesterday,” asserts the fellow on the telephone. He’s Marc Currie, president of Niece Lumber in Lambertville, N.J., and yes, he’s outed me. I’d been preparing for
Fort Collins, Co., is the capital of cool. But that’s pretty recent. “In the ’70s, this was a sleepy little town of 50,000,” reports Scott Glasscock, owner of Mawson Lumber
Brian Hodge is no longer qualified for the first job he held in his dad’s yard, Kruse Lumber, of Rochester, Mn. At age 14, as the youngest, skinniest soul on
“Moneta, Virginia: Where the heck is that? Couldn’t find it in my Rand McNally atlas, but never mind. The affluent retirees and second-home owners living where it sits near Smith
Save the fanfare. No, no, no, wrestled Darrell Derstler upon high school graduation: The last thing on God’s green earth he had in mind was working in the family lumberyard.
Things looked bad. Then, as time went on, things looked even worse. Billy Hyman, in his 80s and a man with no family to succeed him, put his lumberyard in
Guess what’s manufactured in Alcoa, Tn.? Okay, that was easy: aluminum. Starting right before World War II, a plant opened to turn the new wonder metal into tanks and planes.
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