It took Jerry Sadler some 500 hours of detailed work to reconstruct the home of his youth—in HO scale. Sadler, who lives on Pine Hall Road, grew up a little ways away on Buckley Hall Road in Mathews Court House. Using his memory, Sadler recaptured the homeplace, circa 1950, in intricate detail, including all the outbuildings, the farm and its animals, down to clothes on the clothesline and Sadler’s bicycle where he would often leave it as a child. Family members are also included in his diorama. “The memories associated with home inspired me to build this model,” he wrote in a description of the work. “Every building was constructed from scratch and it took me about five months to complete. It is an accurate replica, to the best of my memory.”
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