Grandchildren
Beverly Rhode, Carol Simmons and Rhoda Simmons
The living room had a huge picture window that looked out over the yard, and predated the popular "picture windows" of a later period. Grandpa Charlie told me that originally, there had been a great fire place where the window was. It was used to heat the house, but with the advent of the Franklin Wood stove, it was decided to take the fire place out and put in a big window. There were only two doors in the front of the house before that remodeling, so that room must have been dark.
The Old Farm House
Aunt Kate remembers her family sitting around that old fireplace on winter evenings when her grandfather, William Gray would come to visit. She told about how he always brought his gun and his hunting dogs and he told them all about his hunting adventures. He told them about how the bear jumped the fence and how he would lie low in the marsh and wait for the geese to come. She said that those were wonderful days for the Rhode children listening to his tales.
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