Second Lost and Found Post
Posted Monday, Jun 14th, 2010 at 2:50pmJune is the month for me to share gems I've found in my grandfather, Leonard Dankmar Weil's, writing. Here is a marvelous list...the contents of the old house on the island. Seems like a goldmine for writing prompts (pick any four and tell why they were destined to be together? - if any readers would like to attempt this writing challenge - I'll post it on my blog!).
Significant Contents of Old House
Primus Lamps
fat fancy side board
Little books
The microscope + chairs V. wanted
flapping shutters
uncomfortable cots
Box of birds
Tools of all sorts ( Plumbers, Stone Masons)
Circular saw
Big broken row boat
Arrow + Kittiwake
The old desk + high chair
The spool bed
The carved bed
The Auntie Louise sofa + chair
Prof. clothes
The needles (hypo)
Horseshoe crab
Lizards in alcohol
Swordfish sword
Turtle shell
The wooden snow shovel
The mysterious bathtub
Grass rugs
A.H.V’s. paintings
Old physical culture
Pestles + mortars
Tables with little bugs
Tiny wood bugs
Glowing kitchen (we painted)
Silver in the sideboard
Winter pattern China
Window seat all around the living room (we lived in the dining room)
Old trunks
National Geographics, Nature, Natural History
Pamphlets about the war
Gov’t booklets
The encyclopedia –
Poisons in abundance
Boiler
Remnants of the day when the Kittiwake was a steamboat
Cement work
Mickey’s Hunt
The love-seat duck blind – Ad’s initials
The slums
The tool house
The thin walls
The ice box in the cellar
Franklin Stove
Homemade fireless cooker
The big dumb bells
The Evin rude
The deer skin
Four rooms, a storeroom on the 2nd floor
Four rooms down stairs
Big attic above
Little crutches
Rats in a mattress
Here is an image of the original:
