And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My bedroom was kind of the same, but it was a colonial era post and beam, 1689, originally a coach road in, was turned into a farm our family ran for 3 generations till the whole house burned to the granite foundation. We had the well under the kitchen table, even a soapstone sink with a copper hand pump, huge wood shed out the kitchen door, around that at the end of the carriage stalls was a 4 holer outhouse with stained glass windows and a walk down clean out under it. A two oven woodstove, us kids got a bath on too of it, both oven doors open, it was pretty cold winters up in northern NH, cutting fire wood with a big old buzz saw run by a model T on bricks with a big leather drive belt off the rear wheel, the whole family pick up a delimbed tree and walk it into the saw.
My bedroom was kind of the same, but it was a colonial era post and beam, 1689, originally a coach road in, was turned into a farm our family ran for 3 generations till the whole house burned to the granite foundation. We had the well under the kitchen table, even a soapstone sink with a copper hand pump, huge wood shed out the kitchen door, around that at the end of the carriage stalls was a 4 holer outhouse with stained glass windows and a walk down clean out under it. A two oven woodstove, us kids got a bath on too of it, both oven doors open, it was pretty cold winters up in northern NH, cutting fire wood with a big old buzz saw run by a model T on bricks with a big leather drive belt off the rear wheel, the whole family pick up a delimbed tree and walk it into the saw.
ReplyDeleteBrother, you should tell your stories to a co-author and write a book before those memories get gone.
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