By Jack White with Jon Herman
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The Wreck of the Norwood House
— Excerpt —
“I got the vehicles [abandoned cars] towed away. I had this enormous moving equipment come there, and in the hillside up behind the house outside of the chicken coop, I dug this enormous pit, and we pushed all the abandoned chicken coops and buildings into the pit, and then I had the fire company come and burn it. The fire company loved it. The fire company was like totally into it.
“So, we burned up a whole lot of stuff, chicken coops, pig pens. I parked a dumpster on Norwood Ave. to get rid of the stuff that was on the front porch. This is back in the day when no one even drove on Norwood Ave. I left the dumpster sitting there long enough that I can get everything off that front lawn and into the dumpster.
“It took me years to clear up this property. And the killer, which I think is completely insane now, I had a push mower, like a gas push mower, and I would cut with that for years by myself, push down that steep hill and up around the house. It would take me more than a day each time.”
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