Hats off and a moment of silence for John Goff's old springhouse.

(stolen: two e-mails as follows)
One:
The springhouse is still there. Although, the water doesn't run quite as free as it used to. John uses the spring for the water in the house, so I think it doesn't have the velocity that it used to, because of that. My grandmother used well water at the sink, with a pump, until the last few years before they died, then they put the spring water in the house. It was my job to put the cool water in the cooling trough for the milk to cool, when I was at their house. I always loved the smell of fresh warm milk, and never could understand why it had to be cooled. Silly, eh?I used to sit behind the cows when my grandmother milked, and she would squirt milk in my mouth and then, the cat sitting next to me.What memories, my children and grandchildren will never know those things.

Two:
Yes, I remember the old Goff springhouse very well. Did you ever hear the story of the time John Goff chopped of the end of his finger (I think it was finger not a thumb). Anyway the Goffs used steel wool to clean all of their milk bottles in that cold water in the springhouse. John got a piece of steel wool in his finger and it festered and developed into what was called a fellon (not sure of spelling) and would not heal. It was driving him crazy. So he carried an ax down to Charlie Baker and told him to sharpen it as sharp as he could on the old grinder that Charlie had. After it was sharpened up he told them to call Dr. Hunger and then laid his finger on a fence post and wacked off the offending part. Dr. Hunger fixed up the wound and it healed. Didn't need an HMO back then.

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