burnt Edges Farm.

 

        Burnt Edges Farm was purchased by the Brown's when my grandfather was just 3 years old. The house a large 4 bedroom farm house. Charlie Brown was a prominent member of the community as town clerk which he held for many years. Evelyn was a stay at home wife and mother to two boys. My Grandfather Ralph and his brother Bud. The farm sense it was bought was only a simple property raising little more then what was needed to support the family it sustained. My grandfather attended the one room school house located at the top of Beauty Hill Rd. which sadly no longer stands. This was where he met, my couple years older, grandmother Vera Wheet. Who was born and raised on her own slightly bigger farm on a dead end road off Beauty Hill Rd.

        When Ralph and Vera became Mr. and Mrs. Brown. Charlie and Evelyn built a small retirement home just up the road. Ralph and Vera stayed true to the farm only raising what was needed to survive, and Four rambunctious boys. Ralph, Raymond, Randy, and Russell all grew up to become strong, stubborn men. Ralph, Raymond, and Russell took over the farm when Ralph and Vera built their own little retirement home at the top of the hill over looking the farm. Raymond passed from an accident in 1985. Russell after his grandparents passing moved into their home with his new bride Marla Estabrook and her sons, Cowin and Ryan; where they had two girls myself and my sister.

        My grandmother passed in 2011 several years after my grandfather. At which point my Uncle moved in to my grandparents home. Giving my sister and I the opportunity to take on the farm in the spring of the same year. We had lots to do to the over 200 year old home. In the middle of the recession