The jobs on the whiteboard could have been assigned to workers almost any time in Hope Mill’s long history. Today, though, it’s volunteers pulling logs in from the Indian River, crafting new wooden teeth for a gear, shovelling sawdust and sawing logs.
There’s more grey hair and less urgency now. “We’re not in a hurry to do stuff,” observes David Reeves, who’s providing the tour. “We’re happy to get to do it.”