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Here's page 15, and an excerpt from the very beginning of my Grandpa Jack's essay about his life. This informed the way I decided to draw the house, where the baby is born, and the detail of the hand-pumped water and heating the water on the wood stove. "I was born in the “Front room” of the house. The house had 4 rooms down and 2 large dormitory bedrooms up. The Front room was reserved for special guests, births and wakes of the dead. Things were primitive in those days. The house was heated by a crackling wood fired furnace with the warm smelling heat seeping up through grates. Meals were cooked and water was heated on a wood stove. There was no indoor plumbing until1970. Water was hand pumped from a well about 100 yards from the house and an outhouse 100 feet from the house served as a toilet." -John Albert Ridgeway Thanks Grandpa. I hope you're proud of me. Don't worry, I won't share (all of) the embarrassing parts. xo mm