Tommy Sloan and Diane Robertson lived in this house inside ‘the compound’
with Diane’s three children. The property was foreclosed in 1991.
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the shape of the brand.
Downstairs is a great room with kitchen and dining areas
and a massive fireplace Tommy had built, which seemed like
it would be more in place at a Montana lodge than a corporate
office in Florida.
We go inside the old Raulerson house, where an entry
under the staircase was once used as a hideaway during
Prohibition. Few changes or permanent adaptations have
been made to the house in the last 50 years. I best remember
the arched front porch, still the same, from where we could
watch the Cow Creek unit ride by during the annual Cattleman’s
Day Parade.
I can tell by the friendly banter between the staff and
Brackett that relations are good between landlord and tenant,
and I suspect that a break on their rent has allowed Counseling
and Recovery Center to stay there so long.
While reporting the Cow Creek Chronicles was a story of loss,
walking through the CRC Village that morning and seeing
what was being done for the women treated there made me
realize that good things were coming out of the ashes.
I thought of the hundreds of women who had been treated
at the center, many of them recovering, and of Kathy Sloan
Blanton, who had her own struggle with addiction and grew
up in the house now used as a dormitory for recovering
women. Good was coming from the compound Tommy and
Jo Ann built.
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The great room of the former Cow Creek corporate office is now a gathering
spot for young mothers undergoing addiction treatment.
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