The Old Kitchen Stove

This room holds so many memories and at the center of them is this old stove. My 86 year old father as a boy would warm himself by it. A wood burning gas combination. My grandmother would cook the most delicious meals on this stove. My grandfather a skilled baker would produce pies and cakes and pastries from it's interior. At Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys would be roasting and potatoes boiling. It kept that part of the house warm too. It was also used for heat. On the left side you could put wood in. A great stove to have if power and gas were somehow unavailable.

 My grandfather would chop the wood for the stove and place it in a opening in the colonial fireplace behind the stove. In a colonial home like this the fireplace was huge and on the side of the fireplace in this house was a large beehive oven. My gramps put the chopped wood in that beehive oven. It's sad that the house is going to be demolished soon and the stove lost forever. But the memories will never grow cold.