The year is 1949 and this is Verna Rose. In this picture above, she is being prepared to take an amazing journey. The state was preparing to build a new bridge that would connect Arrowsic Island with the mainland and little Verna Rose happened to be right in the middle of the proposed new road. Whenever you cross onto the island, you pass right through her old location. 
Here she is way up on timbers! Can you see how small the people look? This timber path was the vehicle that physically moved Verna Rose from her old location to her current one. It is just so fascinating to imagine what a huge undertaking it must have been to not only prepare the house, but then to actually move it some 400 yards is just...WOW!!
Surely the still pictures only give a glimpse of what it was like, but enough to evoke a feeling of great love and dedication to a house. The original owners Verna and Ernest Smith were so devoted to the house that they insisted upon living in the house as it was being moved! Verna Rose is a house that has not only been well taken care of, but well loved. Her charm is rooted in not only her old fashioned character that remains intact, but in her history and the history of the people who have lived there.
