So what if it takes two stoves to heat it, even now 52 years later. Of course, when Wally heard about the trout brook out back, and we watched owner Nat Stone feeding chickadees on his hand we’d have bought it no matter how bad the plaster was.
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Ours has a crawl space under part of it, accessible by four removable floor boards, and under the kitchen there’s just about a foot down to the soil it was built on.ĭoug Green, our Camden realtor, warned us against buying the house – “uneven floors, cracked plaster, etc., etc.” – all true, especially of the ell. The ell is typically not as well built as the main house. Have you seen the bookby that title? It’s a wonderful exploration of the unique Maine and New Hampshire connected farm buildings. Two stoves now heat the ell this is a classic “big house little house back house barn” deal with the kitchen and living room in the littlehouse/backhouse or ell. For many years we had four stoves (five counting the one in the little front room where we hung our stockings we only lit it on Christmas morning), but then over the years we pared down, putting a gas Rinnai in the shop and an oil furnace in the cellar. If he could count his life in cords of wood handled, I can count mine in fires built, tended, worried over.Īnd now, the first few days of October, wood-burning season has started. He sawed it up, chopped it, and stacked it. With no woodlot of our own, we bought wood every year in four-foot lengths. 15: Lincolnville Historical Society Open House
United Christian Church, Worship Service 9:30 a.m., 18 Searsmont Road or via Zoom Schoolhouse Museum closed for the summer, 789-5987īayshore Baptist Church, Sunday School for all ages, 9:30 a.m., Worship Service at 11 a.m., Atlantic Highway Lincolnville Community Library, For information call 706-3896. Pickleball Beginners Open Play, 8:30-9:30 a.m., Town Courts, LCSĪA meetings, Tuesdays & Fridays at noon, Community Building Selectmen, 3 p.m., Lincolnville Communications, NobleboroĬross Country, at LCS, girls run at 4, boys at 4:45 Soccer LCS vs Appleton, 3:45 p.m., at Appleton Eventually, and before we burned the house down, we got smart, and stopped trying to burn green wood. You learn to smell the creosote building up, to notice crackling in the pipe followed by the jet engine sound of the chimney taking off. Equally predictable, though scarier, were the chimney fires in those early years. With discouraging predictability, the sink drain froze every winter. Though we two never consciously set out to find a harder way – we never thought of ourselves as back-to-the-landers – in fact we both thrived on all the work we made for ourselves. For some perverse reason this suited my personality just fine. Everyday life was harder than it had to be. Heating with wood, growing our food, living in what was then a tiny town (population of Lincolnville in 1970 was 935) on a sometimes nearly impassable road (Sleepy Hollow was a daunting slog after a snowstorm) was about as far from my childhood home as I could get.Īnd that was the point. So, while this drafty old farmhouse wasn’t such a monumental step back for him – sentiment may have figured in – for me it was rebellion. He lived with his grandparents until he was five or so, outside of Augusta, on the Old Belgrade Road, with a wood cookstove and an outhouse. I grew up in a weather-tight, centrally-heated house that required nothing of my mother except to bump up the thermostat in the morning. All these years later – roughly 12,480 mornings later – I’m still tending the fire in that stove.
With our newly-purchased, vintage, cast iron Glenwood cookstove set up in the kitchen we started a fire on a chilly morning. Almost exactly 52 years ago – maybe even to the day – Wally and I stepped back in time.
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