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FURTHER ADDENDUM

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   Since writing the first addendum in April 1972, I've compiled about 60 additional items which I am going to add to the record herewith and in the same three categories as before, that is, correction of errors, additional material, and subsequent developments.

FHC
October 24, 1972.

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[[underline]] ERROR [[/underline]]

The statement on p.78 that at the Knapp farm, "bathing was accomplished in the kitchen at a sink served by a hand pump," is not strictly correct. The hand pump was in an anteroom off the kitchen and presumably water was drawn from this pump to fill the big water pitchers that were carried to and used in the bedrooms for washing, with washbowls and slop jars as auxiliary equipment. As far as I can recall, there was no bathtub in the house so that anything approaching a complete bath, had to be taken by the sponge bath method. Looking back now, it would seem that we were a pretty dirty bunch of people but this was the way it was on most farms at that time, I guess. I have a faint recollection that if one wanted a "bath", you carried a couple of pails of water drawn at the pump, out into a backroom where you had a little privacy and could strip, wash, rinse yourself, and get reasonably clean, there being a cement floor with a drain in it.

[[underline]] ADDITIONS [[/underline]]

I want to add a few names to the record although none of these people were really close to me:

[[underline]] Chuck Brannock [[/underline]] -- a son of Brannock of Parke-Brannock Shoes, who went to Central High but had a reputation of some sort which I never determined; I just liked the sound of his name.

Two other boys who were heard of often although they went to Central and traveled in another set mostly, were [[underline]] Arnold Burhans [[/underline]] (I think it was Arnold) and [[underline]] Chuck Black [[/underline]] (I think it was Chuck), sons of the hardware firm of Burhans & Black. The name, Burhans, in particular, always appealed to me for some obscure reason. Burhans & Black were the arch-competitors of Alexander Grant & Sons, whose daughter, Eleanor, was a good friend of mine as previously noted.