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ItвЂ™s going to be a warehouse for old house parts.

So I stopped to talk to him, he explained to me, вЂњOh, itвЂ™s this new place thatвЂ™s about to open up. It had some odds and ends, some pieces of old houses and old bricks and things on the table. I wouldnвЂ™t have stopped if I hadnвЂ™t been job hunting. And I stumbled on this fellow who was sitting at a table and I didnвЂ™t really know what his display was about. It was sponsored by Green America, used to be called Co-op America, for sustainable businesses. IвЂ™d like to do something thatвЂ™s just more fun day-to-day.вЂќ And I was at a job fair. I donвЂ™t want to wear pantyhose and sit at the computer all day. And after she died, I realized, вЂњI donвЂ™t want to go back to an office and fundraise.

I went back to Southern Maryland to take care of her. I ended up doing environmental education for a while. I wasnвЂ™t sure if law school was right for me but I thought, perhaps, environmental law. I studied political science, environmental studies. So that was maybe вЂ“ I didnвЂ™t know it then, but that was foreshadowing for my future life. And theyвЂ™d started demolishing this little cottage and I took a whole bunch of bricks from the job site.

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I didnвЂ™t have my driverвЂ™s license yet but I borrowed my motherвЂ™s station wagon after weвЂ™d moved out. So I was so upset when they decided they were going to tear this house down. So IвЂ™d spent my childhood with my mom in hardware stores and weвЂ™ve even put an addition on the house. They didnвЂ™t charge us much rent in exchange for not complaining if it was falling down around our ears. WeвЂ™d done some home improvement on it even though we were renters. And then when I was 16, our landlord decided to sell the property. Right on the water in this beautiful, old brick cottage and it was an idyllic childhood.

We all wear t-shirts at work that say, вЂњSalvage Superheroes.вЂќ This is my salvage origin story. Well, I like to call it my origin story like a superhero. The question we normally open up with in these interviews is to get a sense about who you are, where you came from, and perhaps, how you followed this path to this unique niche in preservation, which is what youвЂ™re doing today at Community Forklift. This is PreserveCast.ДЇrom Preservation MarylandвЂ™s studios in the historic podcast district of Baltimore, this is PreserveCast. regionвЂ™s non-profit reuse center for home improvement and architectural salvage. Today, weвЂ™re joined in studio by Ruthie Mundell, who is the Director of Outreach and Education at Community Forklift, which is the Washington D.C. This is Nick Redding and youвЂ™re listening to PreserveCast.