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She
again stood in the future garage on July 27, talking with mason
Arlan Livingston. The concrete block walls for the basement
were almost complete.
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Notice
the narrow gap between the two walls in the foreground. These
walls outline the portion of the basement that would be underneath
the cement slab of the front porch. Les touted this space,
surrounded on all six sides by concrete, as a root cellar. It
would be a naturally cool and dark place to store vegetables a
19th-century idea in a 20th-century house. We did install
shelves in this damp and narrow room, but the shelves held little but
a few cans of motor oil.
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