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HOUSE BARN PROJECT
Dairy Barn & Stable
& Main Barn
WE HAVE A DREAM!
The members of the executive board of the WHS have
an ongoing dream to restore the barns at the Wait House. We would like
to use the main barn as a place for events and exhibits. The dairy barn
and stables would be used as a small museum showing what a working dairy
barn was like in the 1800’s. We look to 2005 as the year these
projects can get started. We will first use money in our treasury to
“start the ball rolling”. In the Spring we will evaluate
what we can do on our own to make the barns a viable part of the Wait
House. We are also planning to pursue grants and possibly a fund raiser
at some time in the future. It will take a lot of “sweat equity”
and financial assistance to make our dream come true but with your help
we think it can happen.
LOOKING BACK: How to wash
your clothes if you lived 100 years ago:
Years ago an Alabama grandmother gave the new bride
the following recipe for washing clothes. It appears just as written
and despite the spelling has a bit of philosophy. This is an exact copy
as written and found in an old scrap book with spelling errors and all.
-Build a fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water
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-Set tubs so smoke won’t blow in eyes
if wind is pert
-Shave one hole cake of soap in bolin water
-Sort things, make 3 piles
-1 pile white
-1 pile colored
-1 pile work britches and rags
-To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth, then thin down
with boiling water
-Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, and boil then
rub
-Colored don’t boil just wrinch and starch
-Take things out of kettle with broom handle, then wrinch and starch.
-Hang old rags on fence
-Spread tea towels on grass
-Pore wrench water in flower beds. Scrub porch with hot soapy water.
-Turn tubs upside down.
-Go put on a clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs.
-Brew a cup of tea and rock a spell and count your blessings. (Now
I have to go fill the washer with clothes and put the towels in the
dryer!
Who says they were the “good old days?”)
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Layout & Editing by Sandra Reilly
WHS Officers, Pres. Ruth Pestle,
Vice Pres. Jean Sherman,
Treas. Jack Smith,
Sec. Sandra Reilly,
Curator, Judy Dodds
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