During his tenure, Sandor grew a variety of crops in this garden and was well-known for his generosity in sharing the fruit of his labors. In 1997, at the Canal House Association's 25th Anniversary dinner, the late Wilbur Bryan, a neighbor, shared his recollections:
"Sandor kept a beautifully laid-out vegetable garden across the street from the canal house. He grew potatoes, corn, pole beans, tomatoes, onions, peppers and garlic. He also grew his own tobacco that he cured on racks in an upstairs room. He sowed and dried seeds from all those plants and started new plants in cold frames the following spring. He had grape vines along the canal and made his own wine. Finally, he had a very large strawberry patch in back of the house. I also remember a mass of morning glories grown every summer on strings up the side and roof of the little bridgetender's hut."
© 2016, Vivian S. Bedoya