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PoindexterOglethorpe

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7. And I bet that all winter they lived almost entirely in one room,

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 10, 2020, 10:04 PM

Feb 2020

probably the kitchen.

As a child in northern New York State in the 1950s, there were farms near us that had not yet gotten electricity. Used wood stoves for heating and yes, spent almost the entire winter in the kitchen.

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I say bring back those good old traditional American energy sources!!!! [View all] guillaumeb Feb 2020 OP

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