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bucolic_frolic

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1. Highly productive period of time for cold people. Ear muffs and side burns.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Dec 5, 2023, 08:02 AM

Dec 2023

Gawd it must have been cold back in the firewood days. Were log cabins even 50 degrees? And how did you heat a mansion? Loads of labor and firewood. No wonder coal caught on. Labor and soot.

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On December 4, 1858, Chester Greenwood, inventor of the earmuff, was born. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2023 OP

Highly productive period of time for cold people. Ear muffs and side burns. bucolic_frolic Dec 2023 #1

I believe the first Chester Greenwood Day was celebrated in 1977. bluedigger Dec 2023 #2