Hesharpened thescythes on the grindstone, slaughtered a pig, caught and salted fish, ground barleyina water-drivengristmill and grew and stored potatoes.
In 1814, three clerks stuffed it into a linen sack and carried it to a gristmill in Virginia, which was fortunate, because the British burned Washington down.
He left Morgan in 2004 and moved to Malvern, Pennsylvania, into the converted barracks of a 19th-century gristmill, while Alex stayed behind in their three-bedroom apartment on New York's Upper East Side.