A color photograph of a very old clapboard-covered house. The clapboard is weathered and unpainted. Small windows are seen on either side of a crooked screen door; in the upper story, just below the roofline, are even smaller windows. A clothesline runs from one of the lower windows, with various dishcloths and other rags hanging on it from wooden clothespins. Some small potted flowers sit on a bench beneath the clothesline. In the foreground there is an iron hand-pump on a wooden deck over a well. The pump spout is covered with a rag meant to strain out rust. A galvanized watering can and two plastic buckets, one yellow and one green, sit on the well deck.
My great great aunt's house in West Glenville, NY, where I spent many summer days in the 1960s and '70s. While it had electricity, it did not have indoor plumbing. We had to draw water from the pump in this picture – drawn through shale, it was quite tasty […]
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