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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Oct 26, 2008, at 10:11 AM, SJC wrote:

>  The most
> interesting of them, and one who is still a friend, came from what  
> even
> he described as a very "old" area of Poland, and the stoves there
> actually formed, or took place of, the wall between kitchen and
> bedroom:  on the bedroom side were sleeping benches which were the far
> side of the kitchen stove, which had both a bake oven and a firebox
> under the cooktop, plus an area which held a removable clay pot of  
> some
> sort that held water for heating.  The stove at Eugene's parents'  
> house
> had 4 fireboxes, one accessible from outdoors, and 2 chimneys, one
> 'short' and one convoluted, which was the one that ran alongside the
> sleeping benches.

Sounds very nice indeed.

My birth name is Eugene. This is the first time I've seen it as a  
Polish name.