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| Master Builder – Ed Morgan | ||||||
| Ed Morgan was born in Clarkdale, Arizona on the rim of the Grand Canyon. His mother was a nurse on the Indian Reservations and his father a cowboy and miner. Later the family moved to Tucson where attended the University of Arizona. After service in the 25th “Tropic Lightning” Infantry Division as squad leader of a machine gun unit, he attended New York University, married, and raised four children, working as a Longshoreman on the docks at night. For seven years he worked with various airlines, until he met a fellow in NYC who - learning Ed had a pick-up - asked him to haul some lumber. Thus began a new career in building! The next four years he worked in New York as a carpenter/builder. After that he went to Texas, signed on with framing crews building apartments and gained important house building experience. California beckoned next, and there he got into the Carpenters Union. Following the work he traveled even deeper South: to Costa Rica where he built several houses and a milk barn. While in Central America he received a letter from his friend, the artist Susanne Yardley Mason, asking if he were interested in reassembling a 1700s Pennsylvania barn she had just had delivered to East Hampton, Long Island to use as her studio. At that invitation he was off to New York where he spent the next twenty years with her building custom homes including those for the novelist Wilford Sheed, artist Jasper Johns, Washington Post’s Ben Bradlee and Saturday Night Live’s G.E Smith. In 1993 Susanne and Ed decided to leave East Hampton and purchased property in Tortola, British Virgin Islands where they designed and built an Italianate villa. For the past twelve years Ed has been living and working in the BVI constructing custom homes. |
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