Mike says, “I recall putting new shingles on the Barrington house. Underneath the old shingles were strips of birch bark rather than tar paper.”

There was a Franklin stove and it burned coal. It was in the.”front room”. There was a coal bin in the barn at the back to the left and we would shovel coal into a scuttle and take it into the house. Gary will remember. I’m assuming that that was the main source of heat for the first 60 years of the homes life. The upstairs was always cold and Mom would put bricks in the oil stove oven and we would take a hot brick into bed with us to keep us warm.