Rev. C. Hanko – Chapter 17: Moving

Another unique experience in Oak Lawn was our constant moving from one rented house to the next. In the ten years we spent there we moved seven times, and once found ourselves without a home for a few weeks. The first house the consistory rented for us was in the east part of the town, and was surrounded by trees. For a refrigerator, the house had a box in the pantry window where food could be kept when the weather was moderate, not too hot and not too cold. The basement stairway came out in...