Brad remembered those boys as sly and noisy, waiting in blazers for the day-school bus at the end of the road, just outside the tumbled-down fieldstone wall.
Within a year George was making his own walls, primarily freestanding, 3-foot fieldstone walls used as horse jumps, which took him anywhere from 150 to 300 hours to build.
The ancient, all-of-a-piece jumble of khaki fieldstone buildings, wooden shutters and half-pipe roof tiles is as spruced up as a resort these days, with no graffiti in sight or tumbled ruins or paving stones out of place.