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Liberty | Cathy Clarke

by Cathy Clarke
Albert Frederick, 80 and his brother Carl, 76, have lived in their family house their entire life. Eighty-year-old Albert spends much of his time indoors, gazing out the window watching traffic speed past the house.
Albert Frederick, 80 and his brother Carl, 76, have lived in their family house their entire life. Carl takes a seat on the chopping block after splitting wood, one of his favorite past-times.
Albert Frederick, 80 and his brother Carl, 76, have lived in their family house their entire life. Albert gazes out of the kitchen window.
Sign in Albert and Carl’s backyard.
Albert Frederick, 80 and his brother Carl, 76, have lived in their family house their entire life. Many evenings Carl Frederick, left, and his brother Albert, right, can be found sitting on the front porch of their King’s Mt. home.
Albert Frederick, 80 and his brother Carl, 76, have lived in their family house their entire life. This is Carl.
Albert Frederick, 80 and his brother Carl, 76, have lived in their family house their entire life. This is Albert.
Albert Frederick, 80 and his brother Carl, 76, have lived in their family house their entire life. Albert walks down a back road near his house.
Albert Frederick, 80 and his brother Carl, 76, have lived in their family house their entire life. A favorite past-time of Carl’s is splitting wood. The backt=yard holds many cords of wood which he has cut and stacked. There his enough, he say, for two years. Above, the ever active Carl walks past one of the stacks of firewood.
Albert Frederick, 80 and his brother Carl, 76, have lived in their family house their entire life.Carl rests for a minute after helping his brother-in-law, Lewis Simms, snake wood from a hillside on the back of Simm’s farm. (snaking woods is clearing trees from he land with the help of a team of mules)
Albert Frederick, 80 and his brother Carl, 76, have lived in their family house their entire life. Albert shows off a picture of his last girl friend.
Albert Frederick, 80 and his brother Carl, 76, have lived in their family house their entire life. Whittling arrowheads is one of Albert’s favorite hobbies.

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