What a place! The front porch was often a place for relaxation, swinging, singing, and casual conversation. The back porch was just the opposite. It was a place for cooking, laundry, shelling peas, snapping beans, peeling potatoes, cracking pecans, and a host of other activities. Conversation was mostly business related and rather blunt. It's obvious that all of these activities took place on this porch. The porch also provided some shelter in rainy weather, and a bit of summer breeze in hot weather. Other benefits included shade, access to the water well and the indoor kitchen. It was the place to be if you had work to do. If walls could talk.....they would have plenty to say about what took place here.
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