My grandparents bought it about 1937, but the structure was built around 1915 for the sister and brother-in-law of John Henry Kirby, the big lumber baron himself.

[Hicks, 54, grew up in Florida with a devotion to Southern culture, one inherited from his grandparents, who were wealthy farmers from western Tennessee.] I'd travel around with my family as a child, and you'd pass through these towns Charleston, small towns in Georgia and you'd see these signs, 'Where the Old South Lived, Where the Old South Lived, ... Well, here in Franklin, this is where the Old South died.

I found them in the proverbial old trunk, ... One of them may be the oldest phone directory in town. It's just a single sheet of paper with typed numbers on it.

I get confused at times what they're after. Maybe they're just mad in general and want things changed. The law says land should be of market value and analysis shows our (office) is conservative on that matter. I always have to remind people that I don't get a commission.

That's when Suffolk passed the law, and we did it to be in compliance with the law.

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive;That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the Fit survive.