Larry Hopkins -- Luthier
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Creativity/Process
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Conclusion
Larry lives and works in a “stick and bones” house and workshop he built with his own hands in Pekin, Indiana.
-- Photo by Shaun Bengson
Larry lives in rural Washington County, in the town of Pekin a town in southern Indiana. Lying just outside of Salem, the county seat, Pekin is the proud home of the oldest consecutive 4th of July
celebration
in the US.
Larry’s grandparents migrated up from northern Kentucky and Washington County, where his father was born. His father and grandfather sharecropped north in White County until Larry’s father was finally able to buy some repossessed land from the Etna Insurance Company during the Great Depression.
Larry lives on the land he was born on. While much of it has been sold, Larry still lives on a corner of it in a “stick and bones” house he built by hand with his wife. His daughter’s family shares the property in a second home across the yard. Larry’s shop is in a shed behind the house and in front of the barn, where Larry keeps a few animals.
Listen
to Larry talk about his Dad growing up in the Depression.