Source: WRAL TECHWIRE, 8/27/20

My father grew up on a hog farm in southwest Ohio in the 1920s and 30s.  In those days farms were highly self-sufficient and independent.  Most of the family’s food was grown on the farm. Fuel was first from wood chopped at the farm and then from coal purchased from a local supplier.  Still, winters inside the drafty farm house were cold.  My father slept with a heated iron during cold nights.  Electricity didn’t arrive until almost 1940.  Prior to then food was kept cold in an “ice box.”  To his last days, my father always referred to a refrigerator as an “ice box.”

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