My great-grand parents raised my father, and I knew them very well in my
younger years.  The last house they lived in had 4 rooms, each with a
single light bulb hanging in the middle of the room.  They never had
indoor plumbing of any sort (in or out), heated the entire house with a
coal stove in the 'front room' and cooked with coaloil (kerosene to most
of you).  Never had telephone service.  I remember the morning chores:
draw water from the cistern, clean coal clinkers from the stove, take
them out and refill the coal bucket, and empty the 'slop jars'.  Ahh the
memory of trips to the outhouse on cold January mornings.
All this in the early 60's in western Kentucky.  My father lived through
times with exciting change.

Terry W. Simpkins
office: +1 757-766-4278
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