under this old house

Building A 

Before the house on 10th was ours it belonged to a family that raised 6 boys in one tiny room under the eaves. 

They had daughters but in a family such as theirs daughters weren't counted.  The family first lived in a one room house behind this one. We found that out when we went to hooked up the utilities and discovered our house was listed as building B.  Building A was the tiny white garage.  It was the original house.

When BC tore it down to put in his woodshop we found 4 layers of linoleum flooring. We learned the family had lived in the tiny white house for 7 years while building our house.

The room under the eave became Beach's room.  If you laid in there in the middle of the day you could almost feel the remains of the energy of 6 boys.

That room is gone now.  Nothing is in it's place.  As we removed the floor and ceiling we found vintage pornographic magazines.  In the ceiling we found novels of similar character.

A few years ago we found a mummified cat in the basement walls. Eleven years after we claimed this house as our own it still holds the secrets of the family who was here before us.  The secrets of boys.

Found under the west eave of the roof 3/13/18