I love the movie right up to the end. Watching the kids make mom a woodbox through the side of the house is great. But man, seeing dad check his railroad watch and go to work crying rips a hole right through me every time.
That scene really caught my attention too as my grandparents house was built with one of those doors to stick firewood through.
When they got married Grandmother’s Daddy built them a nice large house and gave them 40 acres. He did that for all his children. As he was a sawmill owner it wasn’t that difficult.
Those little boys were trying to make the exact same thing.