“I got the information from town records.” It took me several calls and an afternoon of digging through archives to find the original homestead filing from 1965, made by Roy’s father—Richard Donovan. It took me another week to track down the names of his late mother and younger brother, because I knew that if I asked, Roy wouldn’t give them to me. The plaque is modest—cast in aluminum and engraved in acrylic, noting the year the cabin was built and the four family members who first lived here.
