March 12, 2009
(Photo by Ed Perkins) Johnny Ghee, the head framer on the site with Universal Forest Products, is still hard at work on Thursday morning. Ghee’s UFP facility has provided much of the framing labor and materials for the Jamesville house, including the materials for the walls, roof, and decking. The building community in Eastern North Carolina has been hit hard by the recession, and Ghee told us that it was both a good thing and a bad thing that he could round up 75 or so volunteers. “They’re free because they don’t have any work,” he said. But Ghee, who has been a constant presence on the build site since the very beginning, also said that he didn’t really hesitate when he received the phone call about volunteering: “It wasn’t really what we could do, but it was how fast we could do it.”

(Photo by Ed Perkins)

Johnny Ghee, the head framer on the site with Universal Forest Products, is still hard at work on Thursday morning.

Ghee’s UFP facility has provided much of the framing labor and materials for the Jamesville house, including the materials for the walls, roof, and decking. The building community in Eastern North Carolina has been hit hard by the recession, and Ghee told us that it was both a good thing and a bad thing that he could round up 75 or so volunteers. “They’re free because they don’t have any work,” he said. But Ghee, who has been a constant presence on the build site since the very beginning, also said that he didn’t really hesitate when he received the phone call about volunteering: “It wasn’t really what we could do, but it was how fast we could do it.”

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