Editor’s Note: The following article from the July 30, 1981 Breeze captures a picture of a time that has all but disappeared.

Old Time Barn Raising Held At Wood Home
By Irene Ambler

Last Saturday the family, friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Wood of the Mount Olive community near Hurricane met at the Wood home in a common purpose – that of assisting Mr. Wood in the raising of a brand new…