This was Hilston killcollins farm and now the Huoppi's call it home. The potato house and barn are gone now.

And I sold it to you, Eric! Glad you're still there (in 2015, anyway). The story is that the house was originally across West Chapman Road (on the west side) and they moved it here (there was a well; a previous house on the east side had burned down) in the early 1920s when my mom, Frances Foss Larsson, and her identical twin sister, Freda Foss Kilcollins, were little. The 3 maple trees along the east side of West Chapman Road were young then, and the middle one was stunted because it got rolled over when they moved the house. The barn fell down on my grandfather's Mercury Comet one winter. He got a new windshield and drove it another decade.

Hello! We are still here and the Maples are still standing. I worry every time we get a lot done f gusty winds as they are getting soft and the woodpeckers are really working away at them. It will be a sad day when any of them have to come down, but hopefully we will have them standing for years to come. It sure would have been a sight to see to watch this house cross the street back in the 20’s.

I'm Dave's older brother, now living in Minnesota. My wife and I came by the farm five years ago on a trip from Montreal and Quebec through the family homelands. We knocked on the door, but no one was home. It was nice to see the pond again and the little dam that Hilston and my grandfather had built, across the road from the big house where Hilston and his wife Freda (my mother's twin sister) lived. The wind vane of a trotting horse that used to be on top of that barn is now hanging above my desk here.