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Baptist Church burning in Dallas Texas. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out who’s behind it. If Muslims aren’t deported from our country there won’t be a church left standing in our country. Meanwhile mosques are growing in record numbers.

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That little stone house down by the spring was not just a shed. It was the family refrigerator, and it never once needed electricity. If you ever got sent to the spring house on a hot July afternoon, you remember stepping inside. The air dropped twenty degrees in a single step. Moss on the stones, the trickle of cold water running through a trough in the floor, and crocks of milk and butter sitting right down in it with cloths tied over the tops. You remember how heavy a full crock was, how cold the water was on your hands, and how you were warned not to dawdle and let the door stand open. Mountain families in them hollers built spring houses right over or beside a cold spring that flowed all year long. The water coming out of the ground stays cool in summer no matter how hot it gets outside. Families channeled it into a trough or a shallow basin and set crocks of fresh milk, buttermilk and butter down into the running water, where they kept sweet far longer than in the kitchen. The cream rose, the butter stayed firm, and melons, jars and meat could cool there too. In winter the same spring kept things from freezing hard. What looks like a humble little building was really a piece of engineering. Mountain people found the coldest water on the place, built stone walls to hold the cool in and the sun out, and used the earth itself to keep food safe. No power bill, no motor, no repairman, and it worked for a century. Plenty of us remember that cool smell, or at least the stories about being sent down for the butter.

PopHemingway's tweet photo. That little stone house down by the spring was not just a shed. It was the family refrigerator, and it never once needed electricity. If you ever got sent to the spring house on a hot July afternoon, you remember stepping inside. The air dropped twenty degrees in a single step. Moss on the stones, the trickle of cold water running through a trough in the floor, and crocks of milk and butter sitting right down in it with cloths tied over the tops. You remember how heavy a full crock was, how cold the water was on your hands, and how you were warned not to dawdle and let the door stand open.

Mountain families in them hollers built spring houses right over or beside a cold spring that flowed all year long. The water coming out of the ground stays cool in summer no matter how hot it gets outside. Families channeled it into a trough or a shallow basin and set crocks of fresh milk, buttermilk and butter down into the running water, where they kept sweet far longer than in the kitchen. The cream rose, the butter stayed firm, and melons, jars and meat could cool there too. In winter the same spring kept things from freezing hard.

What looks like a humble little building was really a piece of engineering. Mountain people found the coldest water on the place, built stone walls to hold the cool in and the sun out, and used the earth itself to keep food safe. No power bill, no motor, no repairman, and it worked for a century. Plenty of us remember that cool smell, or at least the stories about being sent down for the butter.

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