Both my Grandparents did here in York and Emigsville. I filled their coal buckets and carried them upstairs from the basement coal shute and bin, at 5-6yr old. It burned hot and kept their home warm.
And when I was a kid we had a coal bin...with coal in it that was delivered as needed. We had a ‘stoker’ which fed the furnace with coal...I shovelled many shovels full of coal into that stoker...on a daily basis...one of my wintertime jobs...and I did not get any ‘allowance’ for doing that...considered it a special treat that my Dad thought I could handle it in a responsible way.
‘All politicians deserve two terms: one in office, and one in prison.’
I really like that...nuf said...