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{SPEAKER name="Jack Magallard"}[Jack McGalliard]
Uh, this, this is where this house got its name from the bulldog or from the dog, I think, they call it the dog trot house, what Bill just said, and this was the dog's domain in the daytime.
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They'd always find the coolest place in the house to stay and that's where the dog lay during the day.
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Now, at night, when you was asleep, the dog would roam in the area, uh, protecting you while you was asleep, that's provided you fed him real good.
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{SPEAKER name="Bill Moore"}
One of the interesting things is when an academic type like myself goes down to do some research, I got a term like dog trot which I use uh, it was, it was startling and surprising and interesting that the local folks who actually lived in them and built these houses seldom if ever called them dog trot houses.
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I had a term which didn't match their term, and this indicates the kinds of regional differences which exist throughout the United States for folk-housing, fencing, food, all kinds of things which come out of our own culture.
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What, what were the terms that people in your area use for that kind of houses--
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{SPEAKER name="Jack Magallard"}[Jack McGalliard]
We call 'em double pen houses
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{SPEAKER name="Bill Moore"}
Double-pen or sometimes breezeway houses?
{SPEAKER name="Jack Magallard"}[Jack McGalliard]
Breezeway houses
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{SPEAKER name="Bill Moore"}
Well Jean Lane, your from Ocilla Georgia, you've been building for how long?
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{SPEAKER name="Jean Lane"}[Eugene Lane]
Round about 45 years.
{SPEAKER name="Bill Moore"}
45 years?
{SPEAKER name="Jean Lane"}[Eugene Lane]
That's right
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{SPEAKER name="Bill Moore"}
What, How did you learn building and how did you get into that kind of profession?
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{SPEAKER name="Jean Lane"}[Eugene Lane]
Well I just had a good mother wit and I didn't go to school very much, but uh, I was able to pick it up real easy and I started building the more I did it, well the more it come to me, and the more I did do it til I liked it myself and other people liked and I got into it in a big way.
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{SPEAKER name="Bill Moore"}
Yeah, Jean is working on the, on the fireplace and the chimney over here which will be on the north side of the dog trot house.
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We were remarking that chimneys today and fireplaces today aren't always the same as they used to be but how do you feel about that, what was that chimney shape that belly shaped that you were talking about? Could you explain to the folks about that?
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{SPEAKER name="Jean Lane"}[Eugene Lane]
Yeah, well, uh a chimney if built straight will pick the heat will blow up the chimney, you won't get too much heat but when you build it with a belly in that means it comes out towards the front and the fire will go around it throw out the heat
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Well then that way, one way when heating your house for that's the only choice they had at this present time. So another thing about the fireplace, it made it very safe to do because the bottom of it was filled with dirt so far down, then they put cement from there to the top of the floor where it wouldn't catch fire or something like that
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So back then you never hardly hear talk of a house catching a fire from the fireplace, only thing you have now is a house catching fire from a fireplace where old dilapidated chimney or something like that you got bad paste in your mortar and it can't be used, sometime they use all kinds of devices to make a fire like paper and stuff like this, they have the tendency to have a house fire sometimes.
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But like they was built, you wouldn't have no house fire because it was well protected and the fireplace was full of enough fire [[?]] to heat when [[?]] the board but it would throw out heat to warm your family.
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{SPEAKER name="Bill Moore"}
Jack, as you look at that house over there and as our audience looks at that house, I wondered if you could make some comments about how that house might differ from the house that we looked at in Georgia, the one that you lived in? Is it as big as the house you lived in? Is it the same shape?
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{SPEAKER name="Jack Magallard"}[Jack McGalliard]
No, Bill it's the same floor plan, but it's not as big, ordinarily the rooms would be a lot bigger and I know the reason this one isn't is because, on account of the pace we have to build the house, the rooms were real big in the house that Bill and I went to on account of, uh, the house was always built according to the size of your family.
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If you had more girls than you had boys you had bigger rooms where the girls could all sleep together, and you had a little room on the back, maybe you had a knot-headed boy, he had to sleep back there by his-self.
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But the biggest room in the house was what we call the "Sitting Room", it's where mother and daddy slept and had a big fireplace in there and that's where you would congregate after what we call "supper", y'all call it "dinner" in these Yankee places but we had supper,
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and then we congregated around the fire at night and especially in the winter time and that's where we would have our family reading the Bible maybe or having a conversation about what was to be done the next day or maybe preparing things to be done the next day.
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If it was uh, there in the Fall of the year, we might have to be shelling peanuts to be planted in the Spring. We had to do our own shelling by hand back then and you had so many you had to shell before you could go to bed.
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You also had to get your lessons which would be by either the fireplace or the lamplight, and you could sit by the fireplace and get warm and study lessons at the same time and use the light from the fire.
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This particular house over here, and some of them in Georgia now, the halls are a lot narrower and the ones than I particularly lived in, the halls were big enough that that you could, at this time now it has been closed in and makin' a room out of it.
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