On Saturday, dozens of people from across the Twin Cities--and possibly beyond--converged on 1522 Hillside to do a volunteer clean-up. Growing up in a farming community, the trash-out of the house held similarities to good, old-fashioned barn raisings. What would have been a job taking up at least a full day's work was instead completed in less than an hour. "Forty-one people in forty-one minutes" was how Nicole Curtis described the task. Most participants had expected to work for a few hours, and others arrived late under the assumption that there would be plenty to do all day long. The final tally was eighty-nine people who came to help.
I got to see the interior of the house for the first time, and it's quite the labyrinth. The old house lovers did get to "geek out" a bit as we meandered through..
