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The Yerkos lived next door for 50 years.
They put up the present porch in 1936, when they built the kitchen. Before they only had a roofless stoop. She doesn't know much of their interior except that it was generally the same in furnishing + decor as her aunts home was.
Shandy ( underlined)
Was used as kitchen in summer.
For summer use, they carried the kitchen stove in there for the hot weather. It was never papered the walls were boards + were scrubbed every year Ceiling was bare boards.
There was a small wooden table by S + W wall + chairs. Many people had homemade benches to use with the tables, not chairs. A window ( 12 panes ) was in the S wall, where the closet door is now.
In E corner, she kept a cupboard later on. At first she had nothing there.
In N corner, had coal buckets flour bin, in W corner pans were hung on nails on beams behind door to present kitchen + on W wall beam near ceiling. ( On nails, lined through)
Window had shades + "lace" curtains she made (dotted swiss). There were