Archive for March, 2010

Small Town Punk - Cornell Daily Sun

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

The smell of molasses, the warmth of a wood stove and the virtue of a family owned farm stand β€” all of which I would call, though not necessarily my experience, my culture β€” feels incongruent with my experience at Cornell. Convinced of the moral …


Fire, rescue calls shrink; chief attributes figurs to … - Aurora Advocate

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

… focused on equipment preparedness, driving and highway safety, rapid intervention teams, engine operations, brush and grass fire operations and fire control for chimney and wood stove fires. Firefighters participated in several water shuttles …


Just Maple, and a few goats, at Tilton farm - Granite State News

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

There, husband Roger Proulx and family friend Gerry Davis were busy stoking the wood stove and keeping an eye on the sap as it slowly worked its way through the evaporator. Roger Proulx held a hydrometer for everyone to see and explained it was used …


In battle of wills with wood stove, family triumphs - Erie Times-News

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

I stared through the film coating the TV screen for long moments before realizing it was not dust that blurred the picture. I decided it best not to say anything. I knew how important this moment — the Great Wood Stove Trials of 2010 — would come …


Living History Farm to host “Spring Event Day” on Saturday - WMBF

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Living History Farm to host “Spring Event Day” on Saturday
WMBF
making lye soap, washing cloths, grinding grits and meal, sawing tobacco curing wood, blacksmith, shelling corn, quilting, cooking on a wood stove,


Burn ban in effect in Independence - Blue Springs Examiner

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

It is also important that citizens refrain from improper disposal of cigarettes, fireplace/wood stove ashes and the use of open flames.


Living History Farm to host “Spring Event Day” on … - WMBF

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

… daubing the tobacco barn, wood working, making lye soap, washing cloths, grinding grits and meal, sawing tobacco curing wood, blacksmith, shelling corn, quilting, cooking on a wood stove, milking a cow, spring cleaning, butter making, and …


Hay from unused fields in St. Lawrence County could provide cheap fuel, boost … - North Country Now

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Hay from unused fields in St. Lawrence County could provide cheap fuel, boost
North Country Now
Local analysts also say that producing pellets made out of hay to be burned in wood stoves and furnaces could help pump up the agricultural economy of the


Meteorite-like rock strikes near Rist Canyon home - The Coloradoan

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Meteorite-like rock strikes near Rist Canyon home
The Coloradoan
but she didn’t think too much of it because the log-sided home the couple shares is heated by three different sources, including a woodstove.

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Schoolhouse stories - Abbotsford News

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

It also had the standard wood stove and no indoor plumbing. Students were sent with pails to fetch drinking water from a stream that ran near the school. It was a coveted job. β€œIt was a joy … because you could get out of class,” says Hannah.