Each year, Lindy Jones and his wife Colleen say they’ll stop making the baby boats. But each year they keep making them. The tradition took root back when Lindy delivered babies at Bartlett Hospital, where he formed deep connections with parents.
Each year, Dr. Lindy Jones and his wife Colleen say they’ll stop making the baby boats. But each year they keep making them. It’s a tradition that took root back when Lindy delivered babies at Bartlett Hospital, where he said he formed deep connections with parents.
Lindy is an emergency room doctor now, but when he was working in the delivery room 20 years ago, he found he wanted a way to acknowledge the connections he formed with parents who were experiencing infertility and challenging pregnancies. The couple builds adult-sized boats, too — like the 30-foot fishing boat they started last January. Standing in the Joneses’ woodshop and guest house — which they also built themselves — Colleen gestures towards the hull, recently coated in resin.
“It’s one way that you can just share something at the start of the year, for somebody special,” she said.
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