Also offered are blazers, kilts, pea jackets, chamois shirts, and wool sweaters, scarves, mittens, hats, ties and socks. Barrows Family Ties Barrows has been in the business since his youth, beginning with his father after graduation from American University in Washington, D.C. in the 1950s. The family came over from England and settled in Irasburg, Vt. About 1905 this grandfather bought a half interest in the Johnson mill from its owner I. L. Pearl, and in 1907 he bought Pearl out altogether, and changed the name to Johnson Woolen Mills. When office duties permit she can be found behind a counter in the store, where the rush of business comes with tourist time in the fall.
Some skiers do come, in the winter, but just when it is too cold to be on the slopes.
Barrows shows a photograph tken when he was a young man of 23, holding his young son, with his father and grandfather - four generations of Barrows, three generations of the Johnson Woolen Mills. There is some doubt as to whether there will be more Barrows in the future of the mill. As he looks to the future of the mill with some uncertainty, he seems to regret certain changes in workers' attitudes, although employees do tend to stay on at the mill, even now, for long periods of their lives.