The Return Of The Root Cellar...
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:17:33 -0600, "Gregory Morrow"
> wrote:
>"IN a strictly technical sense, Cynthia Worley is not transforming her
>basement into a time machine. Yet what's going on this harvest season
>beneath her Harlem brownstone on 122nd Street, at Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
>Boulevard, is surely something out of the past - or perhaps the future.
>
>The space itself is nothing special: Whitewashed granite walls run the width
>and depth of the room, 16 feet by 60 feet. A forgotten owner tried to put in
>a cement floor, but the dirt, which takes a long-term view of things, is
>stubbornly coming back. "It's basically a sod floor," Ms. Worley said.
16 feet by 60 feet? Is this what the rest of the world calls a
partial basement???
--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
Mae West
|