Jeff Simmons moved to Auburn from his hometown of Greenville, S.C., to go to Auburn University. He’s been in the area ever since. Simmons has been working since he was 15. In college, he managed the ...

Ables, who grew up in Brady, owns and runs Ables Top Hat Chimney Sweeps. He has been sweeping chimneys in Central Texas for almost thirty years. When I was 28, my wife and I moved into a house in ...

Wearing a black top hat and tuxedo, Doug Ables of Copperas Cove heads to work — not as a concierge or butler for a wealthy family — but as a chimney sweep. Ables, 61, owner of Ables Top Hat Chimney ...

Doug Dow has cleaned chimneys since 1978. The Lincoln firefighter owns and operates Doug’s Top Hat Chimney Sweep, a business started after firefighters saw an increase in chimney fires in Lincoln. Dow ...