We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.
1950s butter churn
Bobbie Ann Mason
These are some quotes by American author Bobbie Ann Mason Novelist, who was born on May 1, 1940.
