Photo 8-OAR-27

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Ed and Dot Allen farm Shorey Road, Westfield. Johnson owns it now. A couple years ago a twister (?) picked up the machine shop in foreground and moved it across the road.

We (Jason Johnston and Krista Delahunty) bought the Allen place in 2007. Yes, it was an EF-1 tornado that picked up the machine shop on May 31, 2009 and lifted it right over our parked Jeep (which was untouched in the end) and put it in the field across the road. Our oldest daughter was 6 months old at the time... remember it like yesterday! It's fun to see the landscape from 50 years ago - if you drive by now you'll see 4 acres of hop trellising on either side of the house (we are Aroostook Hops) and a 60 foot tall spruce plantation established not too far behind the house. The old barn is gone, and a new garage is built there. The structure on the west side hasn't been there in our time - not sure what it was used for...

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