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Angela Varesano
8/17/72
Mary Washko

the east corner. A homemade cedar chest, as near the bed on the south wall; a cupboard was on the west wall for bed clothes, pillow cases, a rons, and slips. Something small such as a crucifix was over the bed. On the wall beam over the stairway, she hung clothes on nails on hangers. There were blouses, skirts, and dresses. The linoleum floor with papered walls and ceilign was found here also.
In the front bedroom the floor, walls, and ceiling were the same, just as the windows had curtains of printed cloth or Marquisette. Two twist-in hooks to hang clothes of hers and her husband's all covered up by a sheet were found on the east wall; the cupboard on that wall toward the window had more clothes. On the south wall was a couch where the kids slept. Walls had no holy pictures ("not upstairs") with just a cross over the bed. She thinks holy pictures were more for downstairs use and crucifixes for upstairs.
Built in 1949 at the same time as the kitchen and from the same wood, which was bought from the Eckley schoolhouse, was the back bedroom. They were selling the schoolhouse, and Balas Brothers bought it. Washko's paid several hundred for the material. Casings were from the schoolhouse. Room was built for the girls with a double bed, a day bed, a cedar chest, and a chest of drawers. Curtains and shades were on the windows and were from homemade material. The floor, ets. was the same as the other rooms. Stairway had bannisters and an open doorway to the living room which was fixed by her husband in 1949.

Catholic Church interior had Stations of the Cross on the walls on either side of the alter. They had wooden frames. Benches were unvarnished. In front of the benches on the floor was a big radiator that heated the building. A statue was on each side of the alter, the Blessed Mother and Christ Child and the other of St. Joseph.
Next to the north wall, in the middle was a simple-styled alter with two rounded steps leading up to it. Then there was a floor space and the alter railing with a step down to the main floor. A runner carpet was up the front of the steps and across the front of the alter. The floor was wood.
At the alter rail on the left side facing the alter was a candle stand of wrought iron with 10c candles to light, glass colored blue, red, and white. This was outside of and in front of the railing. This railing was made of "pickets" or vertical boards with a top cross. The pickets were painted white while the railing on top was varnished. The alter had candle holders, one on each side of the tabernacle.