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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Penny Ladnier
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 12:43 AM
To: h-costume
Subject: [h-cost] Ironing: Revisited
I talked with my Aunt Susie last night about ironing and keeping cotton and
linen cool before ironing
I talked with my Aunt Susie last night about ironing and keeping cotton and
linen cool before ironing. She was born in 1922. I love my sweet aunt... she
is very intelligent and her memory as clear as a bell.
I first asked about when they had electricity in her home. I think this is
By the way she talked this event
occurred when she was a teenager. If someone was sick, her mother had a
large cast-iron pot in the yard to boil water and wash the clothes.
from home. If there was clothing to be ironed and there wasn't enough time
to do it, the wet clothing was rolled
Thanks for this fascinating post, Penny!
By the way, the Foxfire Books are wonderful, and well known in some
circles (e.g., folklorists, cultural anthropologists,
conservationists, craftspeople, and former Hippies!). I believe you
can still get them all, and new volumes are still being
--- Ruth Anne Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
By the way, the Foxfire Books are wonderful, and
well known in some
circles (e.g., folklorists, cultural
anthropologists,
conservationists, craftspeople, and former
Hippies!). I believe you
can still get them all, and new volumes
]
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 3:43 AM
Subject: [h-cost] Ironing: Revisited
I talked with my Aunt Susie last night about ironing and keeping cotton and
linen cool before ironing. She was born in 1922. I love my sweet aunt...
she is very intelligent and her memory as clear as a bell.
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