I was in middle school during the Carter years. We heated exclusively with a wood/coal burning fireplace insert his entire presidency into Reagan’s. The house was built with baseboard heaters we couldn’t afford to turn on. My brothers and I carried endless buckets of coal. Dad would buy a truck load for the coal bin and we broke it up and carried it all winter long to heat the house.
I was born in '47, during the Truman Administration, and then Eisenhower had his two terms. I went off to high school in September 1960, just prior to Kennedy being elected. My Dad worked on the NY Central Railroad. We lived in Rochester, New York, and our house had a big coal furnace in the cellar. I guess it could have burned wood too, but we always used coal in it. We never had a car to go to the beach or the amusement park, so our idea of entertainment was standing in the living room window, watching the coal truck dump the coal down the chute into our coal bin. Times were so much simpler then.