Re: your cover story Beaver Valley home burns to ground in early morning blaze, please allow me to make both a slight correction and an addition.

Prior to my wife Nancy and me purchasing this home about 20 years ago, Clara Londry owned it and lived there for many years. Clara and her husband, Clarence, didn't build the original 1885 stone and brick house; rather, they added to it, and renovated extensively and substantially in 1957.

Dorothy Crysler told me some years ago that she and others used to refer to the house as either the 'skinny' or the 'narrow' house because of its tall and narrow pre-1957 profile; Dorothy illustrated it as a charming sketch on page 16 of the first edition of her book on the birds of the Beaver Valley.

Re: the unusual stone and brick construction, my neighbour Brad Turner's mother, Laura, recently thought our home had been a school, recalling that the school bell had gone for substantial money at auction. If it was originally a school, this should show up in post-1885 Grey County atlases, and would have been a rare two-storey school in Grey County; the only two-storey school that I can recall is the presumably late Victorian two-storey school on the west side of Rosemont in Dufferin County.

Thank you.