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| "I
winced every step he took on those aging platforms and walkways
of the courthouse. I was always thinking to myself how we would go about extricating
him when the boards would break. But he just carried on like a monkey in a tree.
He was in love with that courthouse
and he knew every inch of it because he had explored it himself. |
Caldwell
County Courthouse District Courtroom
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, 2006 |
Caldwell
County Courthouse Interior
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, 2006 |
Getting
to the big clock on top was a bit of a challenge at first. Workers had taken away
the walkway supposedly so that no pranksters could get to it and damage the clock.
Dad just had me go down a level and retrieve a five foot section of 2x 6 and he
shimmied up it.
He would not listen to letting his much younger and
healthier son go first. HE had to do the inspection. That's the way it always
was with him. I had been following him around and helping him work for 35-odd
years by then. I started by holding a flashlight for him when he worked on something
and he was always working.
The man had tremendous energy. I never saw
anyone work like that before or since. At the farm, at work at Goodyear, or in
politics, his energy was endless. He chaired CAPCO, sat on boards, and he and
Bonnie were always taking people in who needed help. I loved that man."
See
Judge
Leonard W. Scott of Caldwell County |
| View
from the third floor.
TE photo, 2003 |
| Wood
and tile details.
TE photo, 2003 |
| The
County Clerk's Office
TE photo, 2003 |
Courtroom
balcony
TE photo 2003 |
Looking
down from the balcony into the main courtroom.
TE photo 2003 |
A
corner of the ground floor
TE photo 2003 | |
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