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   __Interview with George Dinsmore__

Matt Dinsmore: How else have you enjoyed the lake you lived on?

George Dinsmore: (mic noise throughout) well, when I was younger I enjoyed all the pretty ladies that were around. And um My wife being one of them (said with a chuckle).And uh… (prolongs the ends of some words.) I was kinda a country boy and aa course In the summer the was a great number of kids around and people and there were several beaches were the kids all congregated. And we had a great time during the summer and uh… (takes in a breath) and there was canoeing and all kinds of uh… all kinds of a (faded and muttered) boats but back then there wasn’t the big boats that we have today. uh(holds) I think that the boat I had had had a 3 horsepower motor and I had to row and the other one of my friends run the motor and I run the oars (starting to crack up and progressives to the end of the statement) sssso that we could get some speed. Short laugh. But a we had a great time and and it (quick) was a real enjoyable experience living around the lake and you met some great people.

Matt Dinsmore: When you were finishing school what were you passionate about?

George Dinsmore: well I think that probably what I was really looking forward to was getting out in the world and getting going umm I decide that I would um get out and start to try to get into business as soon as I could which I did. A… as soon as I left school within a year I was a building houses a actually they were summer cottages but at least they were construction. And I think all my life a even then as now. Even at my age I I still think construction is a-is a great a thing to do because you can (clears throat)(sounds bright) look at the finished product and be a very proud of it. It is something you see from beginning to end. And a it is just a just great way to spend your life working in construction. Matt D: Know you were in the korean war how did it change you as a person.

George Dinsmore: I think that probably in military service um…myself as well as everybody else that goes into the service it teaches you a discipline. Uh I think you go in maybe a little nervous, maybe a little cocky. But it is a completely different world and uh you have too live in it. And you find out that you have to…know how to take an order and how to carry it out. And um that I think is the biggest thing about the military. It teaches you a discipline uh that you have to get along with people and you have to take orders.

Matt Dinsmore: Um now being in the war what wass, what do d you remember m most about being in the war itself.

George Dinsmore: I think that uhuh the thing-that. When I went into the service uh, of course everybody that goes in the service especially when there is a war going on ur, ur extremely nervous. To whats gonna happen. Uh I was very lucky and uh I got into an ordinance company and uh when I got to uh I went to Japan before I went to Korea. And uh I got into the second amphibious support brigade. And it was jut returning from Korea and uh it was regrouping so that I actually spent a couple of months in Japan before we went to Korea again. Uh. I think that actually. (Clears throat) seeing a different part of the world, to be able to uh is the most rewarding thing um as I say and I enjoyed it very much and I did my part and uh it was an enjoyable experience over all. Matt Dinsmore: Okay, umm, when you were in construction what was the favorite project you worked on. George Dinsmore: (says it laughing) I should say my grandson’s (one laugh) father’s house. Which would be my son. Its a lovely house and we were building it as we uh kind of was winding down uh in the construction business and I was getting ready to retire. It is a beautiful beautiful home. Uhh, some of the bigger jobs we did were uh a big commercial building in salem it was about 5,000 square feet. It was colonial design. And we designed it and built it and I think that was one of the uh… larger buildings that we built. Very, very nice project.

Matt Dinsmore: umm, now, you owned Duncan's beach, how was it for you owning it and how did you get into owning the beach. George Dinsmore: short laugh, thats kind of-thats kind of a tough one. I I do not know. Duncan’s beach uh was actually a part of my uh, was on my father’s… on my grandfathers land. And uh we lived one the same pond as Duncan's beach. In fact it was just across the pond from us and it just ( clears throat with an embedded um), it just looked (slight laugh) an interesting project. It certainly turned out to be one. Uh, it was, uh-I thought the (mumbled) it was from, a stand point of making money it was a cash business and uh, it was only three months out of the work you had to work then uh you shut it down for 9 months. That was kinda good. But we enjoyed it, we met a lot of people and a lot people enjoyed the beach and the water and um was -just a a good experience. And we met uh. We met a lot of kids, young kids that worked for us. Uh, as um, (says it with a chuckle) ice cream slingers and chefs and whatever. And we had we had a real good time with them and we enjoyed them. And uh……. I’m getting coached hear what (my grandmother is telling him some things in the background)? Oh ya and the pinball, the pinball machines that the kids enjoyed. It was juts was an enjoyable experience- sometimes it was very trying, when you have about 2500 people in a in a relatively small area. It was trying at times. But overall it was a great experience.