william skinner was my great-great-grandfather. here is an image of him around the age of 30.he just lost his first wife, nancy. he is a widower and his photograph with his two young daughters. he also just opened his silk mill in the area that would become known as skinnerville. i find this photograph talking. the intensity in his eyes just burn, just sears you. you so driven, so ambitious. and yet tenderly touching his daughters. this is a photograph of his first wife, nancy warner, and she died shortly after the birth of her second daughter. trained to read married again to a woman named sarah elizabeth allen. she's the woman after whom i am into my full name is sarah skinner kilbourne. and one would think with william skinner being my great-great-grandfather i am named after his second wife, who was his wife for the rest of his life, and my grandfather was the last president of the company, that i would have grown up hearing about william skinner, the founder and his story during the flood. i did not. that story seemed to have gotten lost in the legacy of the company. the

like he did not do business with william skinner, no. thank you. >> sera, at skinnerville, what survives? hasn't been any kind of serious or amateur archaeological search for evidence of the mill? i mean, what can you find if you go to the site today? >> that's a great question, bill. if you go to skinnerville today, you will find a stretch of highway and you will find a few houses along the side of it. some of which are or were wrecked at the time of the flood that were refashioned into homes. and you will find a very tranquil, unassuming river flowing alongside of it which is the mill river. there's been no archaeological dig that i know of. if you want to find the area where skinner's house was, there's a utility, what do they call utility -- >> substation? >> substation or something like that, yes. and back, the locals say, is where his house was. locals in areas to refer to the area as skinnerville, but it is no longer on the map. you used to, for years, be able to go to the mill river and find bricks in riverbank and all kinds of t

but he did not come he did not work with william skinner, no. thank you. >> at the skinnerville, what survives? has there been any kind of serious or amateur archaeological search for evidence of the mill? i mean, what can you find if you go to the site today? >> that's a great question, bill. if you go to skinnerville today, you will find a stretch of highway and you will find a few houses along the side of it. some of which are or were wrecked at the time of the flood that were refashioned into homes. and you will find a very tranquil, unassuming river flowing alongside of it which is the mill river. there's been no archaeological dig that i know of. if you want to find the area where skinner's house was, there's a utility, what do they call utility -- >> substation? >> substation or something like that, yes. and that is where his house was. locals in the area still refer to the area as skinnerville but it is no longer on the map. you used to, for years, be able to go to mill river and find bricks in the river bank and all kinds of things that