I was a kid with extended Smith's Falls family in the Choice; they let us hang around and no harm would ever come to us or there'd be war. And I was there as a kid in Prince Edward County when they went to Mercer's house in limousines and signed over their patches to the Hell's Angels (not sure if it was the after-party or the actual deed I interrupted). I had no idea what was going on, just that I wasn't allowed to play with his son that day and there were all these rough looking dudes in suits. Then (30+) years later I read about it the patching over in a long, treed lane in PEC in a book about Mom Boucher and realised that's what I was looking at as a kid... which perfectly described the Mercer's driveway.
FYI I always did wonder why they let the pool go completely green and there was a monster stereo system in that house with virtually no furniture in the two living rooms it had (big house down on Glenora Road). I guess maybe I'm more clued in now as to what might have been going on there ... I also wonder what might have been up in the attic when they blew a whole lot of that mulched newspaper into the ceiling of what should have been a house that already had good insulation... but maybe I'm just being paranoid about that.
Small world.
