I happened to go to Brooklyn the other day and took the back roads, since Lou and I love going on country rides. I snapped a pic of the farm house the Dennison's grew up in. Was the shed by the house when you were growing up? How about the addition on the back? What color was the house then? How many bedrooms did it have for the nine children? Describe the house, the floors, the colors of the wall, the furniture, anything.
PLEASE add your memories about growing up in the Little House in the Country.
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Hi Tammy,
Love the pictures. I haven't driven by the old house in years. I remember that it was white. I think you walked in the front door you were in the kitchen, which also had a back door, so it was the length of the house. As you walk in to the left was a pretty good sized living room where we would watch TV. I think you got upstairs from the living room. I think there were four bredrooms upstairs, when you walked up the stairs one to the left of the stairs, turn left and down a small hall a big room, the two little rooms to the side, I think. There was also a bedroom right of the living room, which was Mom's and Dad's. The bathroom was off the kitchen, but I don't think it had a regular tub, or if it did, that came later. We heated the kitchen with coal in a stove. The shed wasn't there. I remember that in front of the house there were peonie bushes and a lilac tree. As you were facing the house there was a garden, and an apple tree. There were two cherry trees in front to the left. That's about all I remember about the house, except that when we watched TV Grandma Dennison would make popcorn and put it in a big roasting pan (like the ones you'd roast a turkey in). I don't remember much about Pleasant Prairie school except that it had an outhouse, and that we had to take Goiter pills, and we always had a Valentine's Day Pot Luck dinner.
I hope I remembered this right, I remember having a lot of fun and playing outside all day long. Oh, one thing I do remember is Linda and Bev locking us little kids out of the house in the summertime.
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