Gary Varnese, 78, of Lebanon, assembles side boards on the back of his pickup truck outside his workshop in West Lebanon, N.H., before going to take a load of beverage cans from the American Legion Post 22 to recycle on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2018. Varnese was raised in the house next door to the shop that was recently purchased by the city to provide access through the property to the Westboro Rail Yard. "I'm from the old school West Lebanon back when they were separate, you know, city and town." said Varnese. "But I went to school up here, and I was ready to go to Hartford rather than go to Lebanon because West Leb and Lebanon didn't get along. We never even dated Lebanon girls, that's how bad it was. It was like Hatfields and McCoys. It was way back in the 40's." "Yeah that wagon up there is the big eye catcher. In fact there was a bunch from Canada came down one day and I was loading the truck and they pulled in and said, do you own this place? And I said, yeah. And they said, you're never going to move the wagon are you? And I said, well probably not in my lifetime. He says, we tell all our friends that go to Hanover and Dartmouth and whatnot, as you go through West Leb, at the foot of Seminary Hill, there's a shop with a wagon in the end. That's the landmark. The liquor store's a half mile down the road." (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Gary Varnese, 78, of Lebanon, assembles side boards on the back of his pickup truck outside his workshop in West Lebanon, N.H., before going to take a load of beverage cans from the American Legion Post 22 to recycle on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2018. Varnese was raised in the house next door to the shop that was recently purchased by the city to provide access through the property to the Westboro Rail Yard. "I'm from the old school West Lebanon back when they were separate, you know, city and town." said Varnese. "But I went to school up here, and I was ready to go to Hartford rather than go to Lebanon because West Leb and Lebanon didn't get along. We never even dated Lebanon girls, that's how bad it was. It was like Hatfields and McCoys. It was way back in the 40's." "Yeah that wagon up there is the big eye catcher. In fact there was a bunch from Canada came down one day and I was loading the truck and they pulled in and said, do you own this place? And I said, yeah. And they said, you're never going to move the wagon are you? And I said, well probably not in my lifetime. He says, we tell all our friends that go to Hanover and Dartmouth and whatnot, as you go through West Leb, at the foot of Seminary Hill, there's a shop with a wagon in the end. That's the landmark. The liquor store's a half mile down the road." (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Credit: Valley News — James M. Patterson