Even as my "Tom Glover's Hamilton Scrapbook" is a popular venue for interested locals, so too was my "Hamilton Scrapbook," published weekly for many years back in the early 80's in the late, great Mercer Messenger. Those memories just keep on coming! Way back in the 1940's when my brother Bud was working for Fritz and Edna Kuser, a conversation came up where Fritz Kuser told brother Bud that the the old chicken coop by the grape arbor was going to be knocked down. That conversation just happened to occur at a time when my father was toying with the idea of putting his pottery expertise to work and start a manufacturing business. To make that proverbial long story shortm that old chicken coop was ours if we wanted to dismantle it and re-build it on the Glover north 40.With crowbars in hand, we began the tedious chore of removing the clapboard siding, the two by fours, and the rest of the little coop which was around 12 x 25feet in size. I remember one day when I was working on the lower part of the building when a huge "puff adder" slithered out from under the building. Snakes and wasps were not then, and are not now my favorite things. I was up and out of that working area as fast as greased lightning. Just as quickly, the snake sought refuge under a large blackberry bush with under foliage as dense as a carpet. "Leigh-Rite" toys got their name from my middle name, Leigh. (By the way, the Trenton person who wrote up my birth certificate entered "Lee" instead of "Leigh," and I lost what I considered a neat middle name when compared with "Lee.".
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