Can you buy coal by the 50lb bag anywhere? I haven’t seen it for sale in years. Since I was a kid, I’ve loved the smell of a coal fire.
Until I was 5 our family heated our house and cooked the food with coal. I remember getting scolded many times for playing with the coal and getting dirty. We used to have it delivered half ton at a time. We got a kerosine heater in 1949 and switched to a gas stove for cooking in 1950. Still used coal to heat the water. The water heater was plumbed to the kitchen range (coal burning) so until 1952 we had three different types of fuel. Then we got a gas water heater and we stopped using coal.