Verrill Farm bustling for Thanksgiving just months after fire

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[0:02]" People just like China and turning Joliet yes absolutely nothing about. The first sales at C that was Saturday Monday when we were here setting up fire temporary roadside stand. Customers the company and they were giving -- donations write off of them they were trying and make his sales has as much as possible. We -- people it said they would be back every single -- network everything building out of the roadside stands out. -- customer at the time people started talking about benefits right away that was done within a week. So I'm absolutely customers are right behind us sending data donating. Meals for -- lunches. Coffee in the morning because the staff was situated on an -- white trailer across streets we had no no electricity no heat no running water and -- So they were bringing us up breakfast and lunch. You ever expect that kind of reaction on at all not at all we had women Atlanta a couple of neighborhoods down the road. They need everything homemade they broadening their fan and I mean -- just it was it was touching. It was there ever any thought given to maybe not rebuilding. I think for 12 and then Stephen Jones and their daughter talked about it and they said. Absolutely and they also felt that they could not rebuild because of the customers. He has to do it and this is huge damage here for -- greatest poets are because I'm in the coming -- Tuesday Wednesday before Thanksgiving we do about 2000 ties. Thousand turkeys get picked up fresh turkeys. That's definitely the biggest thing is on the air force. What sorts of arrangements did you have to make -- they handled the we have that temporary trailers wheels -- temporary trailers on the kitchen. Meehan all of us how to be set up outside we normally occur in a building for pick -- not covered greenhouse we had set up outside to people have to. All of -- it is time yet his sense of what they're picking up into the side. -- gravy mashed potato butternut squash. Stuffing. Us blessing this. Premiums. Sweet potatoes. Although that's still hold the hold -- and gone but they deceptively -- feeling that we don't look is that turkeys and those suppression unit deceptive about Steve -- to steal your operations back to be able to do that we did slightly yes and yes. Now in terms and reconstruction we expect that by next year you won't get him. That's correct it will open 68 months pregnant building the and so quite spring when people start coming in we're hoping but I think it's anymore summer. I know that a lot of people have warm spot at Hartford. They don't -- tell stories about how. You know on holidays it was opened up for them -- to -- to narrow well on -- on Thursday were closed Thursday and Friday if he's done here. Still the -- people and there are no place like and you don't cash box he doesn't usually run their registers so -- ticket credit having a good cash bond. Sell your -- makes no they're not -- we're unique."