Village Squire, 1977-05, Page 11The outside of the inside. Inside the barn, outside The Country Craftsman shop.
FAR FROM THE ROARING CROWDS
The Millers choose
the quiet life
Early May, 1977 was a quiet time for Tom and Carol Miller
on their farm south of Mitchell, a big contrast from how it
might have been.
As we visited this cool spring morning with only the sound
of the birds chirping and an occasional car speeding by on the
nearby highway the memory of the life he left behind was
fairly fresh with Tom Miller. The night before he'd watched
many of his friends and former teammates score an upset win
for the New York Islanders over the vaunted Montreal
Canadians before the roar of thousands of ecstatic New York
hockey fans. It was just two springs ago that Tom turned his
back on all of that.
Now the scream of a power saw in his carpenter shop in the
big barn on his farm takes the place of the scream of hockey
fans, and both Tom and Carol Miller seem very satisfied to
have it like that.
The two came originally from Kitchener before Tom's
hockey talents began to take them across the continent. He
played on the national collegiate championship team in the
U.S. and eventually came to the major leagues with the
Detroit Red Wings, then went to the New York Islanders
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