Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stolid pressman of 41 with muttonchop whiskers, sits in his modest living room playing with two of his seven children. In the kitchen, three women are busy over several bushels of peaches. One woman is peeling the plump yellow fruit; another toils over the kettles simmering on the stove; a third pops peach halves into bottles. The tableau seems to be a Rockwellian slice of rural Americana, a pair of friendly neighbors helping a housewife put up peaches for the winter. There is one discomforting difference, however; all three women are the wives of the man playing in the living...
...mouth with soap for using a "bad word." Nevertheless, young Skinner was "taught to fear God, the police and what people will think," and his Grandmother Skinner "made sure that I understood the concept of hell by showing me the glowing bed of coals in the parlor stove." To deter him from a life of crime, Skinner's father conducted him through the county jail and on a summer vacation took him to a lecture with colored slides that depicted life in Sing Sing...
...suspects) that he was illegitimate. He writhed under this double disgrace, and when he left home at 15 it was forever-he saw his parents only once after that. Withdrawn and stumpy, he was apprenticed for six years to an apothecary. By day he brewed prescriptions over a kitchen stove; by night he wrote radical poems and skits that read like bad Kipling. At 23, indirectly because of a stormy verse drama he had written, he was offered the post of director and playwright at the theater in Bergen. His first four plays flopped, and as a director...
...preparation for a trip to California with his girl friend. Some vans are fitted with primitive sinks and iceboxes; the 1969 Ford van owned by Ann Wasserman, 20, has a large table that used to be a tree stump. Ann's van also carries a cooler, a Coleman stove and lantern, and her boyfriend's motorcycle, which he rides ahead of the van on long trips. Other vans have kerosene lanterns, candles mounted on inner walls, and even potted plants. Charles Patton, 39, goes camping in a 1957 VW beetle that "some hippie kids" helped him convert into...
...times when a gas station's rest rooms simply are not available. In San Francisco last spring, police arrested van livers who were solving that problem by dumping waste on the streets. Heating is another problem. Lenny Hirschtritt took a practical approach: he installed a huge potbellied coal stove in his 1961 Ford Econoline and put a chimney on its roof. "It gets so warm in here," he says, "that at 20 below I've had to open a window." Considerably less conventional is the California couple who warm their van on cold nights with the body heat...