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Waln Brown interviewing Margaret Maloney - 2 - 8/19/72 Tape 4-2

WB: So it was after that that you had the shanty part

MM: Yeh, when the boys began to work and comin' in with workin' clothes we had to
use the shanty I said well we might was well close it in and make a place to eat out
in the summertime.

WB: So that shanty used to be an outkitchen a summerkitchen?

MM: Yeh.

WB: And a lot of homes had the summerkitchen you would cook the food out in there
and bring it in the house to eat and that would keep the house cooler?

MM: Yeh, we had 2 stoves one out in the shanty and on in here and then in the
summertime we'd leave the one in the house out and then use the one in the shanty.

WB: But in the wintertime you'd fire up the one in the kitchen and that would help keep
the house warm, right?

MM: Yeh and then I washed out in the shanty the washer was out there and I'd wash out there.

WB: Who was responsible for tending the fires both in the outkitchen and the house?

MM: The cook.

WB: In other words the mother, so how about do you remember, let see you were
born in 1902?

MM: 1904

WB: Can you remember say about 1915 you were about 11 yrs. old then do you
remember what the house looked like say in 1915 say for instance how the
bedrooms, how many were in your family, I forget?

MM: 2 boys and 2 girls.

WB: Yours was a small family you didn't use the attic for bedrooms in other words.

MM: Well I slept up in the attic in the summertime we put a bed up there and I'd go
up in the attic.

WB: Wasn't it hot up there?