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Old 01-10-2010, 09:22 AM   #8
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Today's Jan 10 Sunday www.citizen.com has an article on the Castle in the Clouds with a long, detailed description of all the structural and repair construction improvements.


Castle trivia - Tom Plante, the shoe manufactorer from Boston who built the Castle in about 1912 lost all his money in 1917 Russian war bonds when Lenin & the Bolshevics won the great Russian revolution and sent the czar on a permanent vacation.

Anyway, the story I heard was Tom Plante ended up a poor, sick, pennyless, pauper working in the Castle kitchen. (....at 15% guaranteed interest...what could go wrong, my friend?)

Maybe the Castle could put up a plaque with a photo and a decription of his fate, since he did in fact purchase all the land, design and build the Castle...............
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