In a message dated 10/23/2005 3:50:09 PM Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Thanks for sharing the two grannies with us. What is the difference in a Shanty and a cabin. Can you use those nouns interchangeably? when ranny was rich she lived in a log cabin. when she was too old to work and moved in Axson she lived in a shantie. they are still there on the other side of the railroad, A shantie had no glass in the windows, wooden boards covered the windows at night. They were not logs just wooden slabs, wooden floor, She had white river sand around the cook stove and kept a clean house, her yard was white river sand that she would sweet clean every dat with a brush broom. I ask her why one time, she told me that way the next morning, she could tell it anything came in the yard, snake, dog or man. they had stick chimneys in the front room, granny would roast sweet potatoes in the coals.and sit and peal sugar cane cutting them into little chews, we spent many hours in front of the fire warming first her butte. with her skirt lifted up, and god forbid if you sit between her and the fire, when she had to spit her snuff, she could hit the spot, everytime. Do any of you remember Axson the four way stop. One road went across the tracks and the other way went to the river, out there was the little Utah church. and cemetery where the Mormon church was, started 1900, the people went to the old church and I do have lot of histories about that area. Would love to share. . Some of the old houses were called shotgun houses, all had the porch you sit on and talk to your friends and anyone who walked by. black or white they were all granny's friends, Southern to the bone ,Connie