VOLUME 32, NUMBER 47 APRIL 3, 2008 FREE THE WEEKLY NEWS & LIFESTYLE JOURNAL OF MT. WASHINGTON VALLEY Case In Point: Jogalite keeps on running … A 2 Will Snow’s Sleigh Mill: Rediscovering the Sleigh Mill 100 years later … A 6 The Stephen Guerra Band: Big Band sounds cure spring fever … B1 Nooks & Crannies: Time to ramble through the forest … Jackson, NH 03846 • Lodging: 383-9443 Recreation: 383-0845 • www.nestlenookfarm.com • 1-877-445-2022 B10 A SALMON PRESS PUBLICATION • (603) 447-6336 • PUBLISHED IN CONWAY, NH SSTTOORRYY LLAANNDD Case In Point CC OO RR NN EE RR Now he’s interested in the cosmos Mr. Barclay’s house isn’t ‘purple’ By PG Case and wanted to invest in the business and Bartlett and moved down to South ALMOST ANYONE WHO HAS become a partner. We built the building Hampton on Long Island where he had Busy Bees passed the “purple” house at the head of up on High Street for manufacturing met the very attractive Hibernian soap Silver Lake in Madison, has probably and shipping and the business eventual- maker Caitriona Breslin at the funeral of wondered who lives in this somewhat ly came back to life.” yet another cousin. Caitriona was taking are Getting remarkable façade. It is the home of the About this time Hunt’s mother, who care of Hunt’ ancient aunt and he stayed artist and entrepreneur Huntington was a character in her own right and had on till there was another funeral. Now Barclay, who is the founder of Jogalite. been living in a castle in Ireland, came married, the couple moved back to the Busy! Hunt insists that it is not “purple” back to the U.S. and had brought with “purple house” at the head of the lake even if every one else describes it thus. her some Irish currency. It just hap- and soon added another family member. “It’s really astral blue,” he assures me, no pened to be $30,000, which was the Ansel, named for the photographer, is longer bothered by the misnomer. same amount that Hunt had been trying now old enough for day care while Hunt He’s been in the house since 1980 but he to borrow from a guy in New York. is old enough for Social Security and first came to Silver Lake back in 1977. “I “She just handed over the money say- Caitriona is somewhere in between. had just gone through a ghastly divorce ing, ‘this is the first thing that you’ve Hunt’s two daughters by the first mar- with a whacky wife,” he says with his done that I’ve approved of.’” But that riage live in New York City. Anoosh, is trademark basso profundo laugh, then was the last time she put in. an opera singer and Amelia, a Kennett adds, “I came up here because I was hav- “One of the great things that hap- grad, is studying design. ing an affair with my cousin.” More pened was when Reflexite, who makes Hunt now helps Caitriona with the laughter. the reflective material that we use in our soap business, which has had new life He has a bunch of cousins over in belts, allowed me to take materials on breathed into it by one of those business Tamworth but Hunt grew up in credit while we satisfied orders. I can’t flukes where one thing leads to another. California, the details are sparse. He thank those guys enough.” Now they are supplying hospitals with came to New Hampshire as a high Hunt leaves the operation of Jogalite hospitality kits under the name Barclay- schooler to go to prestigious St. Paul’s in to others now. And so he has time to Crocker, which you can find on line. Concord. Then he studied painting in work on other projects. After coming Hiking and biking are still big for New York City at the Art Students back from a bicycling trip out west he Hunt and he has reinvented his painting League. “After that I had my own studio got an idea for a better bike box. His from old school realism. “I’m now strug- in Little Italy on Broom Street. That cardboard carrier had gotten pretty beat gling to be the artist I want to be. I was Elementary school students will once was a gas man. I would see real mobsters up so he configured a new design with a trained in the classical style. But I want in the streets back then.” stronger plastic material that was price to paint the inner cosmos, the psychic again be getting involved in After his cousin coupling, he met his sensitive and the idea took off. realms as exposed by the macrocosm community activities this spring in second wife Chris. She was a great look- Hunt took off too. After a few years seen through the Hubble telescope.” Far ing woman but, “she had three personal- he sold the business to a cousin up in out, man. ▲ the seventh annual Busy Bees ities, only one of which was good.” That Community Service Program. didn’t last too long. “When she left she told the judge she wanted to be compen- sated for all that she did to help build up It's a great way for children to the company. Only thing is our numbers were actually lower than when I first met participate in community service, her.” raise money for special PTA or Hunt was out running one day and almost got hit by a snowplow. “That’s PTO projects, and earn a free day when I got the idea to make a reflective for themselves and an adult at Story vest. I was staying at the Silver Lake Motel and I got one of my art students Land in June. to sew it for me. I put some ads in (the magazine) Runner’s World. But I didn’t Kids will perform volunteer service get a bite. When I was just about out of money all of a sudden orders started for local non-profit organizations pouring in. I hadn’t realized that the sport was so seasonal. That’s when and events, and do chores for family, things started to take off.” friends, and neighbors to raise money David and Donna Richardson were working for me (they still do) doing the for PTA or PTO projects. sewing and shipping. David came to me one day and told me that his father was It's never too early to learn the value willing to mortgage his own house to get the equipment we needed to keep up of community service and working with demand. Thank God for them. Up for a common goal. until then we were still working out of the motel. Then I rented the railroad Your support is appreciated. station from Mrs. Lyman who let me box in the waiting platform for our shop. By then I had brought in Peter Lang to help with sales. We were selling any- thing to do with jogging back then: clothes, reflectors, joke books. All kinds of stuff.” But the boom burst when the great runner Jim Fixxe died of a heart attack Sponsors include: while out running in Hardwick, Vermont. “That really took the wind out Abbott's Premium Ice Creams, of our sales. About that time Norm Ben & Jerry's, Wal-Mart, Wilson stopped in. He grew up sum- mers here and now has a place on the Huntington Barclay & Story Land. Lake. He had been with Sears for years On the Cover Inside Index Biz News ................................Page A12 African Drum and Dance Run with Jogalite Calendar...................................Page B4 The Akwaaba Traditional African Drum Huntington Barclay of Jogalite in and Dance Ensemble performed a cele- Silver Lake makes running safer. Entertainment..........................Page B1 Page 2. bration of authentic African music and Nooks & Crannies.................Page B10 dance in the Loynd Auditorium at 603-383-4186 Kennett High School on Friday night, Artist on display On the Rockpile.......................Page B9 Route 16, Glen, NH March 28. See Pages A8 & A9. Artist Robert Gordon’s work on display Real Estate .............................Page A13 (Justin Macomber/Mountain Ear Photo) at Tin Mountain through April. Page Resort Report...........................Page B8 www.storylandnh.com B14. Page A2 - The Mountain Ear, Thursday, April 3, 2008 Do-It Yourself But pay close attention to details Save money by selling your home without an agent By Suzie Laskin five to ten percent. NORTH CONWAY — If you’re think- Negotiate an offer: Once you get an ing of selling your home without hiring offer, be prepared to negotiate. 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