We Have This Treasure: John Huff

Or maybe it should be recorded that we had this treasure. He was on loan from his family and his friends and his community of Bloomington, Minnesota for a time. We borrowed him to serve as a living example of kindness and service to others and for the example of a life lived out in goodness.

Octogenarian extraordinaire that he is, John worked at Holden this summer as a maverick, toiling side-by-side with those perhaps a quarter of his age. He drove the luggage truck, split wood for the winter, cleaned and set up the Village Center for events, loaded and unloaded luggage of the guests...in short, whatever hard and heavy work needed to be done. And he was ever the cheerful one at whatever the task.

John left this week to return to Minnesota for the annual family camping trip and to get acquainted with the newest granddaughter, born while he was here in the village. After the camping trip...but you do not want to hear the schedule...he is booked up until next spring...when he hopes to return to Holden for another round of volunteer work.

John takes the wheel of the new luggage truck for his final drive down the mountain to take the boat down lake...and then the train back to Minnesota.