[M.D. Holloway]

I remember when I was 4 we moved into a 120 year old Victorian Farm house in Connecticut. My Folks spent about 25 years re-doing the inside and most all of the outside to period luster.

One of the first projects I watched (and helped) my Dad do was to mix some concrete for a back porch. He had found boxes and boxes of large blue Mason jars. He had me dump them into a small ashcan and pulverize them with a baseball bat - like I was churning butter! He used the glass fines as aggregate in the concrete. It gave it a great blue sparkling luster! He said it would give it durablitly.

My Mom came out and nearly had a fit stating that those jars (back 39 years ago) were worth some good cash. I must have smashed around 4 doz!

the Folks sold it 15 years ago. I visted that house a few years ago and that back porch looks just as good as the day we made it!