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Remembering Grover Gilpin: He never forgot lesson he learned When the writer visited Grover at Summit Manor last fall, Grover retold the story he'd told over and over, about the lesson he learned from a young college boy from Metcalfe County who taught how to drive a nail through green oak planks without splitting the boards Comments re article 66696 Grover C Gilpin 96 Adair Co KY 19172014 By Gary Lane I shall always remember many things about Mr. Grover Gilpin, but one incident stands above all others. While a student at Lindsey Wilson College in 1960 I started the Cumberland DHIA in Adair and Cumberland counties. There were eleven dairy farms which I visited monthly, weighed each cow's milk and took a sample to test the milk for fat content. Grover's dairy was one of the dairies I visited. On one occasion when I arrived at Grover's farm he was building a wooden fence around a house on the farm. He was using green oak lumber and every time he drove a nail in a board the board split. He was not too happy. I said, "Mr. Gilpin if you will dull the end of that nail before you drive it the board will not split". He looked at me like, what is a young college boy like you doing trying to tell me how to drive a nail? He did not say anything but he did hit he next nail on the sharp end to dull the point. It worked. No more split boards. He told that story on me every time we got together since that day. I have enjoyed time with him at national, state and local meetings - he always told the story about the nail and the split boards. I visited him in the nursing home last fall and after figuring out who I was he relived the story about the nail and the green boards. - Gary Lane This story was posted on 2014-04-15 16:14:42
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