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Ida Chamness writings on travel and religion, 1927-1938

1927-09-26 Page 57

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-57- talk to, and wave at the girls and Uncle several times a day and watch them doing their work. But after while I got so I enjoyed being there. Dear Uncle would try to come over to see us every day no matter how tired or busy he was, and in a kind and fatherly way; would try to solv and mend all our troubles for us; and the things that worried us: calling us his girls, all of which cheered and helped us. He also brot over some roots which he had sawed at the mill for us to burn. Georg hauled wood to us and chopped it up for us. We seemed to never lack for kind helpers. There was a waterfall at Roiseland which grandpa had made by daming up the large creek and digging a new one about four hundred feet or more in length in order to turn the course of the water to a higher level so it would run with force to the saw mill which he had also made. Here, they sawed up all the lumber which was used in building their houses, barns, and other buildings. The trees were cut way up in the mountains; and hauled down on a sled in the winter. The sound of this waterfall could be heard all over Roiseland; and at Volland. And I loved to listen to it. Up high in the mountains was another dam
 
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