>>>On the show with the spoiled kid, Andy tells Opie that one of his chores is >>>carrying out the ashes. Does anyone remember the fireplace in the Taylor >>>home ever being used? I guess that would have been the only ashes, I did >>>not see a wood stove anywhere.<<<
If the Taylor home was like many homes in the sixties, it probably had a coal furnace. I grew up in a house with a coal furnace, and they required some tending. Part of that was scooping out the ashes and clinkers and hauling them outside. I always assumed that's what Andy was referring to. Thelma Lou (Janet) _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
