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What's in a Name?

8/1/2022

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A big question we get here at Oak Lane is where our name came from. Oak Lane isn't the name of the street I grew up on, but it is part of where I grew up. 

Growing up I lived outside of town on a small acreage. We weren't farmers, but had farm land all around us. We had goats, a few chickens, and of course a little herd of cats. Growing up in the age before the internet, we spent our weekends outside, riding four-wheelers and go-carts, stomping in the creeks, and building forts. What felt like a Saturday tradition was me waking up to my dad shouting up the stairs that we were working on a Saturday project. 

One Saturday, our project was planting saplings on either side of the driveway. This was no small feat; our driveway was about a quarter mile long. I listened as my dad explained to me what the goal was—to create a canopy of trees down the drive way, which, for Oak trees could take 100+ years. He wasn't working for that day, month, or even year. He was working for something that someone would see and enjoy when he was long gone. 

​In 2008 my father passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 54. Oak Lane Candle Co. is named after all that; my dad, the house, the property, the trees, everything that helped make me who I am today. 


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