Posted on 04/18/2010 12:11:22 PM PDT by jay1949
In this article, a selection of mountain cabins which were photographed when folks were living in them. The cabins depicted are all believed to have been located in Appalachia, although the location was in some cases not specified.
(Excerpt) Read more at backcountrynotes.com ...
Mountain Folk and Log Cabins Ping List
Wow, those are small ... and they had such big families. They must have camped their boys outside unless it was snowing.
Heck, my ggggrandfather`s log house still lived in by my family since 1797 here and my friend`s log cabin since 1792 lived in only 7 miles away. Mine has still has War of 1812 newspaper pages as wallpaper in the cellar. But the one they built in 1648 has rotted away.
Ha. They probably all slept in the same bed.
Without bathing, either. *shudder*
Good to keep the family home if you can...
My mother was born and raised in a log cabin in the Blue Ridge. You couldn’t tell it was a log cabin after cover boards were put on later.
Spent many warm nights there as a child protected from those cold mountain winters.
The gov. took the family land and later burned the home down.
When I was growing up and we had a chicken ranch in CA, at the edge of the ranch property was a tiny one-room wooden house that had formerly been home to a deaf woman, probably around the late 1800/early 1900s.
It had a door and a window. It was probably smaller than my walk-in closet.
Sadly, some arsonists got to it back in the 70s.
Sponge baths.
“Sadly, some arsonists got to it back in the 70s”
probably the goverment!! They love to burn down houses
If we got rid of all our “stuff”, think of how small our living space would need to be.
My great-aunt’s diaries from the 1930s and 40s mention weekly baths - Saturday nights - unless they’d been doing something upclose and personal with hogs.
I once asked my dad why he only took a bath once a week when he was a kid growing up on the farm. He replied, “Because they made me.”
ROTFLOL!
Now that is funny!
I cannot imagine living with one bath a week.
And I say this having lived without hot running for water now 9 years, and probably about 3 or 4 years total other times. I heat up water on the woodstove when it’s cold, and on the cooking stove (electric now, used to be propane) when it’s warm, pour it into buckets in the shower stall, and do a squat and pour. And when too tired (rarely), a sponge bath gets everything pretty clean when done carefully with a gallon or so of water.
When I lived in HI I just took cold showers a lot, you get used to it very fast in a hot climate. Refreshing, actually.
Gooberment arson prone land grabbers get theirs in the “Big park” video, on the net.
Why did they take the land and burn down the house? If you don’t mind me asking?
I took cold showers in San Antonio, especially the year I couldn’t afford to repair the ac in my truck.
My great-uncle (brother of the aunt who kept a diary every day for 75 years) said they took a shower and washed their hair when it rained!
The building of the Oconee Nuclear power plant in the 70’s.
Back then they wouldn’t let anybody live near it..
The gov. moved everybody out, then destoryed nearly everything except the grave yards, that came later..
The graveyards were moved when the new lake came..
Remember the Chattooga River and lake in.. deliverence..
Gov.wanted it all and took it for pennies on the dollar.
We can still run the river,..
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