For a person to survive without electricity and running water is actually quite easy. There were still many people in America who didn’t have electricity and running water well into the 1940s. Even in Boston there were people on the outskirts who still used outhouses into the 1930s. My mother told of recurring spring project where all the neighborhood men would get together and help each other dig a new “soil pit” and move the outhouse from the old pit to the new one, cover over the old one, the...
Published on February 16, 2024 20:01