Exploring the Ancestral Home

front porch we'll go on up here so this used to be a two-story house right here and these are the old flagstones that were picked up here off the mountain and used to build the chimney just things are just kind of all the pieces so I can remember as a kid sitting on the porch here with the swing and a little glider chairs old-time glider chairs walk in the door there and my great-grandpa be sitting by the wood stove let's go on inside yep she's locked still got a boa my wife just said well there's a door over here too I said yeah I know this is my grandparents house pretty sad no what's under there pretty sad now I was told by part of my family that this house used to be a long house but what I'm seeing is it didn't used to be a long house but there's some pretty cool old Timbers up here and they were saying I should get some of these Timbers to use in my house you can see the hand-hewn Timbers here and big logs I'll show you real quick these are all oak hand hewn Timbers right here's probably one of the oldest pieces of wood in the whole house it looks like these piers that go up there all hand-hewn I'm not sure that some of these Timbers that are going up right here aren't American chestnut there's one of the old pegs that is used to hold this beam in place interesting so this is my great grandmother's kitchen and