Minister Robert Campbell - Ingenuity (clip)

Minister Robert Campbell: My cousin Gloria – my grandfather was teaching us all how to be a part of the work he was doing – she also helped put that wall together. She also made a different mixture of concrete – well, cement – with a mixture of lime in it. There’s a rock in there, it’s huge, and back then we didn’t have a forklift. Uncle William, Uncle Walter, and Deedie Britton put together an incline with a pulley system, and that’s how we got the rock in the wall. So, with ingenuity, comes construction. They were very instrumental in so many things that we’ve done, especially when we were building some of the walls and the houses. Our scaffolding was a lot different from the type of scaffolding we have today. We’d sometimes have to build our own scaffolding and it had to hold the mortar mix, as well as the bricks and stones. Sometimes we had the vehicle to carry stuff around, and sometimes we didn’t so we had to build stuff on the fly.