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This is an excerpt from Lavernia Legacies, issue #2:

"It is called “Dagger Hill.”  The name sounds romantic and like something out of “Treasure Island” but the source is much more . . ."

" His first child was born in the log house and he hoped to have a large family to fill the house. . ."

"It has windows all around upstairs and down to take advantage of the cooling breezes that come up about five o’clock each day. . ."

 ". . . The storm that destroyed the Methodist church was still on his mind and he wanted a place to keep the family safe.  Mamma used it until one day she . . .felt something clinging to her long skirt.  She looked down and found a rattlesnake had struck her skirt. . ." 

"The hired hands sat on the porch until the meal was ready and then sat at a table in the corner to eat."

"A large wood burning store sat beside the back door that was started early in the morning and stayed hot all day.  Besides cooking and baking, it was used to heat the sad irons used for ironing on Tuesdays and for the hot water for the bath tub.  Our table salt was kept on a shelf over the stove so that it would stay dry and not clog the salt shaker.  The kitchen was always terribly hot in the summer but in the winter it was the best room in the house."