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Island sandstone. This was the chief storage area for the family’s supply of potatoes, carrots, turnips, and other vegetables harvested in the fall for use during the winter. Those Who supplemented the firewood dumped a ton or two of coal in the cellar as well. The winter’s cache of pickles and jams was kept on a shelf or in a wooden closet in the cellar. The cellar was a cool in the summer, so it was there that the milk and butter and other perishables were placed when the weather was hot.

In the fall, preparations had to be made for the coming winter. Storm windows and doors had to be taken out of storage and mounted on the house, and the house had to be banked. This meant tacking strips of tarpaper, and in later years strips of plastic, around the