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Old 12-30-2021, 12:45 PM
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Default I visited a house in the 70's that had a pump in the kitchen

and an outhouse . Going out there on a cold dark night is an experience I will never forgot.

But the occupants were middle /upper class 20 somethings on an extending vacation which they called getting back to the earth.



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Originally Posted by rmd2 View Post
My mom was born in a farm in 1909. She grew up with no electric, no cars. Grandpa had a horse that pulled the plow on the farm. He lived to be 96. Even when I was a little girl we stayed at another relative's farm and they had one electric wire strung across the ceiling with a bare light bulb in the house, no phone, unpasturized milk, no indoor bathroom, and a hand pump in the kitchen for water.