What is the definition for "piazza" ? Carol Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Olivia & Larry Braddy" <olbraddy@pineland.net> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:55:36 To: GAEMANUEL<GAEMANUE@rootsweb.com> Subject: [GAEMANUE] 1833 letters describe area domestic characteristics #2 #2 I was greatly relieved when the streaks of daylight found their way through the chinks in the walls. I arose and performed toilet operations without water, and throwing open the door of my room went out on the piazza, where I found a pail of water and gourd, and a wash-pan placed there for family use, and a towel for everybody's use. How differently did the man appear to me in the morning of whom I was so ready to make a demon in the night. True he was one of earth's plodders, with scarcely an idea in his head, perfectly ignorant himself, but his wife, he said, had some "larnin"--she could read, but not write. He manifested a fund of kindly feeling and hearty good will for us, pointed out the difficulties of the way; said the causeway was all washed up at "Yam Grandy" and the water deep, "and if the critter was inclined to be 'skeary' we might have difficulty." He brought out some pieces of blanket and wrapped skilfully about the harness in different places to prevent the horse from being "galded" in his warm and weary way. January 16, 1834--... I was not sorry when we were once more alone together on the road. The day passed pleasantly in social converse and in comments upon the rustic life everywhere displaying itself in rude fences and ruder barns, the latter in some instances being only pens made of fence rails of extra length piled up high, and the ears of corn thrown in until they were full, when they were left uncovered. In some places there were a number of these improvised barns, and then again one or two would hold all the corn the owner had. My heart sunk at nightfall as we approached the little log hut where we were to stay all night, but found it far more convenient and comfortable than the one where we had slept the preceding night. The supper was good and well served, and we had a candle on the table to give us light, and servants standing around to wait upon us. I asked one of them to hand me a glass of water. She brought me a gourd full from the bucket, and after I had drank took it away again and hung up the gourd. They called the drinking cup a gourd, but it looked like a long-necked squash with a hole cut in the bowl end and hollowed out until there was nothing but the shell left. This held the water, and the long neck served as a handle. Our wayside accommodations were very simple all the way, and the unique features of life as presented to me in these squatters' cabins were a perfect study to me. They were so different from any phase of life which had ever before come under my notice--though we had no second experience as rough as the first night developed. We did not stop for dinner even when we passed (as we occasionally did) an attractive-looking place which gave promise of a good dinner, judging from the looks of hogs rooting about, plenty of chickens of all sizes and ages, and calves in the pen, denoting an abundance of milk and butter.... On two occasions when night overtook us we found ourselves at stage stands where the drivers of public stages changed their horses and drivers and passengers took supper or breakfast. These were much more pretentious than the wayside homes which had hitherto served as abiding places for us when our day's travel was completed. The houses were more spacious and had a sprinkling of city comforts, procured probably through the drivers as they passed back and forth from Savannah to Macon. The buildings, though, are almost universally made of logs; that is, the body of them. The larger houses here are what they term "double pen" log houses, that is two separate cabins made of logs and notched and fitted into each other at the corners, and sometimes hewn on all four sides. These are placed some little distance from each other, perhaps ten or fifteen feet apart, and connected by rafters overhead, and one long roof stretched from end to end of the two buildings, covering the open space as well, which is floored, and serves as a hall or passageway to the house, and is the main entrance, a door opening into each of these two log rooms, on the right and left hand respectively. Then there are piazzas built back and front, extending the whole length of the cabins and the passageway, which sometimes embraces forty or fifty feet. At either end of these piazzas small bedrooms are boarded in, called shed rooms, and as they are small they have a long stretch of piazza between them. The front piazza is general sitting-room about nine months of the year, and the back one (overlooking the kitchen, which is always a separate building, though generally in close proximity to the houses) is used as a dining-room. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 46009 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message Emanuel County GaGenWeb http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaemanuel/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GAEMANUE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think you will find that it is a porch or veranda, On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:32 PM, <yukiyama2@aol.com> wrote: > What is the definition for "piazza" ? > Carol > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Olivia & Larry Braddy" <olbraddy@pineland.net> > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:55:36 > To: GAEMANUEL<GAEMANUE@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [GAEMANUE] 1833 letters describe area domestic characteristics #2 > > #2 > > > > I was greatly relieved when the streaks of daylight found their way through > the chinks in the walls. I arose and performed toilet operations without > water, and throwing open the door of my room went out on the piazza, where I > found a pail of water and gourd, and a wash-pan placed there for family use, > and a towel for everybody's use. > > > > How differently did the man appear to me in the morning of whom I was so > ready to make a demon in the night. True he was one of earth's plodders, > with scarcely an idea in his head, perfectly ignorant himself, but his wife, > he said, had some "larnin"--she could read, but not write. He manifested a > fund of kindly feeling and hearty good will for us, pointed out the > difficulties of the way; said the causeway was all washed up at "Yam Grandy" > and the water deep, "and if the critter was inclined to be 'skeary' we might > have difficulty." He brought out some pieces of blanket and wrapped > skilfully about the harness in different places to prevent the horse from > being "galded" in his warm and weary way. > > > > January 16, 1834--... I was not sorry when we were once more alone together > on the road. The day passed pleasantly in social converse and in comments > upon the rustic life everywhere displaying itself in rude fences and ruder > barns, the latter in some instances being only pens made of fence rails of > extra length piled up high, and the ears of corn thrown in until they were > full, when they were left uncovered. In some places there were a number of > these improvised barns, and then again one or two would hold all the corn > the owner had. > > > > My heart sunk at nightfall as we approached the little log hut where we > were to stay all night, but found it far more convenient and comfortable > than the one where we had slept the preceding night. The supper was good and > well served, and we had a candle on the table to give us light, and servants > standing around to wait upon us. I asked one of them to hand me a glass of > water. She brought me a gourd full from the bucket, and after I had drank > took it away again and hung up the gourd. They called the drinking cup a > gourd, but it looked like a long-necked squash with a hole cut in the bowl > end and hollowed out until there was nothing but the shell left. This held > the water, and the long neck served as a handle. > > > > Our wayside accommodations were very simple all the way, and the unique > features of life as presented to me in these squatters' cabins were a > perfect study to me. They were so different from any phase of life which had > ever before come under my notice--though we had no second experience as > rough as the first night developed. We did not stop for dinner even when we > passed (as we occasionally did) an attractive-looking place which gave > promise of a good dinner, judging from the looks of hogs rooting about, > plenty of chickens of all sizes and ages, and calves in the pen, denoting an > abundance of milk and butter.... > > > > On two occasions when night overtook us we found ourselves at stage stands > where the drivers of public stages changed their horses and drivers and > passengers took supper or breakfast. These were much more pretentious than > the wayside homes which had hitherto served as abiding places for us when > our day's travel was completed. The houses were more spacious and had a > sprinkling of city comforts, procured probably through the drivers as they > passed back and forth from Savannah to Macon. The buildings, though, are > almost universally made of logs; that is, the body of them. The larger > houses here are what they term "double pen" log houses, that is two separate > cabins made of logs and notched and fitted into each other at the corners, > and sometimes hewn on all four sides. > > > > These are placed some little distance from each other, perhaps ten or > fifteen feet apart, and connected by rafters overhead, and one long roof > stretched from end to end of the two buildings, covering the open space as > well, which is floored, and serves as a hall or passageway to the house, and > is the main entrance, a door opening into each of these two log rooms, on > the right and left hand respectively. Then there are piazzas built back and > front, extending the whole length of the cabins and the passageway, which > sometimes embraces forty or fifty feet. At either end of these piazzas small > bedrooms are boarded in, called shed rooms, and as they are small they have > a long stretch of piazza between them. The front piazza is general > sitting-room about nine months of the year, and the back one (overlooking > the kitchen, which is always a separate building, though generally in close > proximity to the houses) is used as a dining-room. > > > > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 46009 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this message > Emanuel County GaGenWeb > http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaemanuel/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GAEMANUE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > Emanuel County GaGenWeb > http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaemanuel/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GAEMANUE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Two things I have learned: there is a God; and I am not Him!! 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