Residents of Sheridan recently experienced one of the hottest summers on record, with several high temperature records being broken. At least today most of us have air conditioning of some sort, but our ancestors had to make do with what nature threw at them. Before electricity, keeping homes cool in the summer was a difficult task. Homesteaders had to cook using coal or wood stoves, which heated up the house as well as the food. Many times, the…
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