> stone room under the front porch (did I mention it was an old house :)> ).
> Don't know what this room was used for originally. It is too cold> and a bit
> damp to work in but we are in Kansas so this is our fail-safe> tornado
> shelter :). It would have been a "root cellar" or a storage place to keep
> perishable food items in the days before refrigerators. The most likely
> thing to be kept there would be root vegetables - so one could have potatos,
> carrots, etc. through the winter. It's still a good place to store tender
> bulbs, like cannas, if you dig them up every fall. Janet
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