We didn’t have electricity or indoor plumbing in our house until I was 8 years old. I remember the day the REA man came and turned on our electricity. Daddy was gone somewhere all day and we couldn’t wait for him to get home that night. We ran around and turned on all the lights upstairs and down.
When daddy came over the hill by Ern Workman’s place, he saw the lights of the house and said he thought we were going to use a whole month’s electricity in the first night!! But when he got home, he danced around our circle when we sang. “Let there be light” and we laughed until our sides hurt.
We got indoor plumbing the same year. My Uncles Ed Rath and Owney Fisher came and helped turn the pantry into a bathroom. There were some other neighbors that came too. Dick and I were fascinated by being able to walk through the wall between the pantry and kitchen before they plastered it up. And we were in the way while they were stringing the electric wires and plumbing pipes through the walls. They installed a tank and pump in the basement that pumped the water from the cistern out by the fence that got it’s water from the windmill down the hill. They put in a hot water heater that worked from a propane tank out by the cistern. Boy, were we getting FANCY!? Mamma didn’t have to hand pump the water for baths in the wash tubs sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor anymore. All you had to do is turn the faucet!! FANCY SMANCY!!
-- Submitted by Sherri Gregory
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