OUR KITCHEN @ THE BIG HOUSE

    Just like the rest of our farm house, the kitchen was also big. The size was what most women would want in a kitchen. Lots and lots of floor to ceiling built in cabinets, but, it had no real counter space. My mom either sat items on the sink while working around or on the table in the center of the room.

      The south wall was centered with a door to the enclosed knotty pine porch that was added around 1950. To the left of the door was a window that remained when the enclosed porch was added. To the right of the door was all built in oak cabinets floor to ceiling(10 ft,) 

      The east side of the kitchen was all cabinets to the ceiling with a see-through waist-high counter space with a pass through to the dining room. There also was a doorway then to the dining room.

     The north wall included a doorway to the main bathroom the to its left was a long cast-iron/porcelain sink on legs with one large sink well and at both ends an area to wash/dry dishes etc.  Next to the sink was, I believe the refrigerator. 

        The west wall had the stove centered by two windows on either side. Somewhere in the late 1940's an electric stove replaced an old wood burning stove. 

      The kitchen was the daily hub and that south entrance was where most everyone entered the house. My dad did used the enclosed entrance on the west side of the house that went up to the bath and down to the basement to enter after work and hang his work clothes. 

      A few of my toys were kept in the lower right hand cabinet on the east wall. Two significant things I remember about the kitchen were  the sound that the wash pan made in the sink when moving across pieces of sand or grit. It was like fingernails on a chalkboard. The other was, before TV, lying under the sink after supper and listening to the radio.(Green Hornet & Amos & Andy)