The Memorial Day program is kind of a big thing for our local towns. Now there’s not that much that goes on, but it’s something that you usually participate in to show your support. What happens is that all the local churches have a service, then after the service the Marching Band from the High School will march from a designated spot to where a small program was going to be held. Since we have multiple area churches in our Cluster, this scheduling of the band is down to the wire. The kids have to go to all the towns that make up our Cluster and after preforming and getting something small to eat, you’ll see the bus taking off to the next town to march. Our church was the last one on the list for the day and with the crappy weather that we’ve been having, we didn’t have anything outside for a program, and had it in the ballroom instead. This is the first time that I can remember that they’ve had the whole program in the ballroom and it was really kind of nice. There were so many people that wanted a seat, that around 40 people had to stand in the doorway or outside and listen to the program. I think this is so cool that the town would get together to hear the same poems every year, and show respect for what the day stands for. Now you’ll see every neighbor that you have during this program and after it, well there’s popcorn to eat and lemonade to drink. 
After the program when Kyle and I were leaving, we walked by this old building on our Main Street in our town that someone was working on. It looked like they were gutting the building and I knew that there was some talk about having it condemned. So we did what anyone in a small town would do – we went and introduced ourselves and asked them what they were doing. It didn’t seem to offend them, and they were pretty eager to answer our questions. What they were doing was exactly what we thought they were . They were gutting the inside, but then they were going to get it ready for a new business. Now in a small town of 440 people, and a lot of them living out in the country, having a new business I think is a pretty big deal! Who we talked to was the Dad of the owner, and what he said was that his son who lives in California bought the building and was going to put his business in it. I’m not sure just exactly what the business was going to be, but he said that his son is an Engineer and has a couple of different Patents and he wanted to use the building as his main office and a showcase for solar and geothermal. He said that their family grew up not too farm from our town and bought the building when they saw it. He said that they are also working on bringing back the integrity of the building. I absolutely love the ceiling tiles and they were going to redo the front door to what it was originally. Kyle and I had a really long discussion on what businesses that our town needs to stay alive when we were driving back from New York. The only thing that we didn’t know was that there was something in the works as we were discussing it. How cool is that? I took a picture of the inside while they were working, it had a lot of dust in there so the picture isn’t the clearest. But you can kind of make out the cool ceiling tiles if you look close. I was so excited about them cleaning up this old building and fixing it up to how it started, that I had to hold back on saying that we could help them clean it up. I think they would have kind of been freaked out on that. Just a little bit too friendly.