Good catch there.. Never know what other goodies might be
lurking in that thing. Usually cellers were full of all
kinds of junk.. Or at least if it was like my grandmothers
in rural OK... She used hers to store lots of home canned
veggies, and fruit, etc. Back in her day, most all of that
stuff they ate, she canned. They rarely bought store bought
stuff. But it would also have old farming parts, hoes, etc.
The usual stuff you might see in a garage these days.
I'm sure they had to use it for storms at times..
I remember hers would always have black widow spiders in
it. Every canning season she would have to get a broom and
swat and kill them all before she started putting away all
the canned stuff. Her celler was the kind that was mostly
underground, but had slanted tilting doors that covered
the top. You pulled them back to go in.. I hardly see cellers
these days.. Ditto for basements.. They don't have em down
here on the gulf coast, except for a few exceptions.
MK
